LETTERS, 

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COMMUNICATIONS 

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JOANNA SOUTHCOTT, 

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THE PROPHETESS OF EX" , Ri 

lately written 

TO 

JANE TOWNLEY, 

LUKE, 24th CHAP, 17th VERSE. 

< WHAT MANNER of Communications 
ARE THESE? " 

JUNE, 1804. 

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Dear Miss Townky, 



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HAT new wonders are 
daily presented before my view! I dare not suf- 
fer myself to indulge a thought of them j if I 
did, I could not write, or keep my senses: but if 
we go one step from the directions the Lord hath 
given to me, we are lost in time, and to all Eter- 
nity ; — fallen from the height of happiness, to the 
depth of misery and woe. We must stand by 
Eve's first words; but we are lost, if we comply, 
as she did, to go one step further afterwards. 1 would 
sooner go to the flames as a martyr, than go one 
stej) from the directions the Lord hath given me 
concerning my Trial — and you must charge my 
friends, for their lives, NEVER to consent to 
ANY PROPOSALS made by any man; but say 






as the Lord hath commanded it, we MUST 
OBEY; for, if they consent any other way, they 
shall never see me: for I am determined to abide 
by E-e's first words, and no arts of the serpent can 
work in man, shall ever make me go to the second: 
for had she abided by the first, " 7he Lord hath 
forbidden it" and stood to her word, she could not 
have fallen— and now the devil wijl come in men, 
instead of the serpent, to try me. Therefore, 
we must stand to Eve's first words, and then we 
shall not fall I hope, by the next post, you will 
be able to send them all the joys that are set be- 
fore them, and rhen let them judge for themselves,' 
if they would run so fatal a hazard, as to go ont 
step of their own y to do either good or evil. I am 
forbid from ever speaking to man any more, before 
I meet them in my Trial — so I cannot see friend 
or foe, and no man must come in my presence be- 
fore I go to begin my journey, and then I must 
not speak to any man upon the rojad — and when 
I arive to take my Trial, there is qot one of my men 
friends must come to see me, before they meet me 
in the room — and then those that are against me 
must enter first, having such strict charges given 
me; and knowing that how the serpent would 
try in man to betray me, to make me disobey. I 
began, this morning, to ponder in my heart what 
Arts he could use in man to accomplish it; but 
thought to myself, he might use his arts in this 
w:i y, — to tempt men, they ought to have me first 
to 'be tried by medical men, to see if I was in my 
senses; but that I thought the devil would be 
easily foiled there, as they were to cpntend with 
the Twenty-four chosen men first— and if they 
would not consent to that— then, they would give 
it up that ajl is right: as you, as well as so many 



witnesses can prove my senses as good as ever, and 
my understanding much clearer. Another thought 
came into my head, they might make a search after 
me, to resolve to find me, and then I was deter- 
mined in my mind, not to see them, for I would 
shut my eyes, and keep fast my mouth — that it 
was not all the arts of men and devils should 
make me open either: for I would not look on 
them, as Eve did on the serpent; nor dispute with 
them, as she did with the serpent. I am writing 
ypu my simple thoughts, because the answer to 
them is deep and weighty; for I was ordered 
to pen the ponderings of my heart. 

Adieu. 
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 



*£fa answer of the Spirit to the above ponderings of 
Joannas heart. 



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** NOW this has been the pondering heart of thee— ~ 
How thou wouldst act sooner than disobey? 
And from thy heart I'll now appear, 
And prove that men are devils here ; 
If they would have thee disobey, 
And let the serpent now to say, 
It is a fever of thy braiq, 
That thou with men do thus contend 
Thy Maker's will for to obey ; 
They all shall find the woman's free 
From the temptations of the Fall, 
And from that guilt, \ tell you all — 
And so by her the serpent's cast : — 
But now in man he strong does burst : 
So 'tis with man she must contend ; 
because the devil's now in men-- 
And like the serpent do appear,— 



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And now from f Paul ¥\\ answer here, 

7^hat My simplicity is come 

To shew you in the woman's form 

I'M come the world for to redeem, 

From Adam's fall, I now tell men— - 

And now I'll tell you of the Law, 

Under the fall you all must know, 

You all stand tainted by the fall ; 

But now's the time, I tell you all, 

I will redeem you from that curse, 

For here the serpent now is cast — * 

J t a 2 simplicity she's come, 

That fe> in CHRIST to guide her hand 

In true eibedience to appear— 

Ac A low, Qh men, you must take care 

e not in the serpent's form ; 
Then here's a sin you don't discern, 
So strong against: the HOLY GHOST, 

man so bold should burst ; 
/■• .In her heart sheath ponder'd here, 
Froni hell that man I cannot clear; 
For there he ever must remain, 
Worse than the devil you see plai-n> 
That man in boldness must became; 
For now I'll answer unto man — — 
Had satan in the serpent's form, 
Gone to the woman then unknown, 
And said he'd sting her then to death, 
If she refus'd the fruit to taste I — 
And shew'd her then his pois'nous spear, 
Then soon in hell he should appear : 
Because no blame could be in her-—, 
She eat the Fruit her life to spare ; 
Or, else, I say, her life to save, — 
"When I had said, .she should not live; 
If in My Power he had come, 
I say, My honour 't must be gone 
To let him reign another day, 
No, 'twas by arts he did betray. 
And they by arts may try the same, 
But know, vain man, if ere you come 
In any Violence to appear : 
As I've pronounc'd by satan's spear, 
Your sins against the HOLY GHOST, 

•J- 2. Corr. 11 chap, 3 verse, — - Galatians, 4 chay. 4 verss. 



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And you in hell are ever lost. 

Because much bolder you must come, 

Than ever satan did assume-; 

And 'twas by arts he did condemn, 

That he MY people could betray ; 

And so by arts he came to thee, 

With every fatal threatening there; 

But never did to thee appear: 

Because that power I' forbad, — 

And ne'er would let him to proceed, — 

And now the same, T say to man, 

I'll give them leave to act like him, 

In every threatening to appear; 

But ne'er approach thy person here* 

If they can make thee to comply 

With all the arts that they can try: 

Then I'll not cast the blame on man, 

If they can pluck thee from MY HAND, 

By any arts, or threatenings, here ; 

But if/tti Power they do appear, 

Thinking by Power thus to do ; 

Thy silence every soul shall know. 

Because as thou hast ponder' d here, 

And there's no answer men should hear 

Tn any word then spoke by thee, 

Nor, yet their face thou should'st not see- 

i'd sooner make thee dead and blind, 

Than e'er let man that Power find. 

And soon in hell they should appear, 

And they no more from ME should heat--* 

And. no mor^ m ere y t hey s h ou 1 d s ee, 

Than they would hear, and see in thee. — 

For now I've brought the cause to man, 

To prove the end how all will stand : 

For as that chapter doth appear, 

Man is the serpent; I say here ; 

For My simplicity is come, 

To bring the cause, and now try man, 

What they would be in satan's room : 

For strongly in them now he's come- — 

The simple woman to betray, . 

And make her now to disobev ; 

With every art that they can do, 

1 now allow them to pursue, 

Without a violence to appear ; 

Or, ere approach thy person here; 



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Unless they make thee to comply 
By thy consent, and Me deny. — < 
But in thy heart I well do know, 
Thou say'st no arts can ever do- 
It they like satan should appear, 
To send the greatest offers here : 
As he would 've made thee Queen of hell ; 
And man on earth the same should swell, 
To say they'd make the Queen the same, 
They'd find in thee an equal scorn. — 
They with their Gold may perish here, 
And all their threatenings thou'lt not fear— - 
For My command thou wilt obey 
Nor Earth, nor Hell should alter thee ; 
Before thou had'st seen the perfect end, 
To no one living thou wilt bend ; 
But My command thou wilt obey- 
Then hear the words I now do say — 
I've brought the woman to your view, 
*Tis for your good you all shall know : 
If by her words you now do stand, 
Then Paradise you may command.— 
For now the serpent is in man, 
With allthe rage of hell he's come, 
To see if he can me betray 
By any arts brought round this way. — 
I gave him leave to vvork his will 
And try his power and his skill 
With all the art, he can invent, 
To work in man is My consent : — 
Thy every virtues for to try, 
To see if thou wilt e'er comply 
To new proposals made by man : — 
Then I will own like Eve thou'st done* 
But if like Eve thou'lt not appear, 
With all their threatening malice here : 
But to her first words thou wilt stand, 
And say it is the LORD'S command ; 
The way the trial now is plac'd : 
And then the good Fruit they shall taste 
But one step further must not go ; 
For there the woman found her woe — 
And there your woes, I say would come, 
If now one step is giv'n up to man, 
From any way the trial's plac'd ; 
For then the Evil it would burst, 



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And every woe must come on man* 

For then I say, you're all undone. 

But if you stand unto MY word 

You'll find ME as a Powerful GOD, 

To bring [REDEMPTION unto man, 

And find My Kingdom is nigh at Hand— 

Because mankind I well do know, 

When they are convinced they wrong did go, 

To seek by arts for to betray, 

I know in mourning then they'll lay ; 

And all themselves they'll highly blame, 

And then the Serpent 1 shall shame — > 

And tell him for to act like men, 

Weep and repent of what he 'th done : 

For he shall grieve mankind no more, 

I'll rid him of this earthly shore ; 

And claim the kingdoms all my own, 

And men as Earthly Gods shall come— 

And Paradise on Earth shall see. 

< — So here's the mystery of the Falls 

For the first words I tell you all, 

Must in the woman now appear ; 

With My Command, must all stop there— ■} 

And then the Serpent must be cast, 

And he in hell with rage may burst: 

Because I know he've had his time, 

And now he'll find I will HAVE MINE, 

For so the ending shall appear, 

And know I always told thee here, 

When I redeem'd you from the Fall 

You must come back to Adam's call— • 

For the Creation 't must appear 

When I do come the whole to clean— •■ 

And can it be another way ? 

I ask, My Honor, how't must lay, 

To say at first I laid a Flan t 

To be a Helpmate then for man ; 

As I pronounc'd it for his good.— 

Can man so vainly judge their God> 

Should let the devil ME betray, 

And turn ME back another way ? 

And tell ME I should not go through 

The Plan I'd laid would never do ? 

Bat now, to do it, I AM come;-* 

And Satan may consult with man, 

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To turn it back another way—* 
They both together may agree 
Tf they an art can now invent 
Thy heart in sunder for to rend; 
And make thee disobey My will ; 
Then I'll give up to Satan's skill, 
That he hath work'd to act in man, 
If they thy heart can now o'ercome— * 
Then men shall say there is a God; 
But not in Power as 'tis said ; 
Nor yet in Wisdom so DIVINE, 
If they can make the heart of thine, 
To yield to them another way, 
Than I have laid the Plan for theeP 



Now, my dear Miss Townley, must not we 
be worse than Mad-men and Fools deserving pun- 
ishment worse than the devil, if we draw back to 
dishonor GOD, after His unbounded love and 
goodness to man ? 

(Signed) 

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 



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HERE follow copies, and part of Copies, 
of Letters and Communications of 
Joanna Southcott, which she sent 
to Miss Townley; and which Miss 
Townley has, according to the dates, 
transmitted to the Rev. T. ?• Foley, of 
Oldswinford, Worcestershire. 



Wednesday, Juntifr 1804. 

REV. SIB, 

I went, this morning, to our dear 
Joanna, for directions for Mr. Sharp, concerning 
the Book in which the Letters are placed wrong: 
but no words can express the feelings of my heart, 
to^ see her, as though she was surrounded by the 
devil and all his hellish hosts, in such agonies as 
if he was tearing her very soul and body. The 
horror and misery of her was far beyond what pen 
can express, or heart conceive, that was not an 
eye-witness to it. It has been a day indeed ; a 
day of everlasting remembrance to me, that never 
can be forgotten. I shall give you the words, pen- 
ned from her mouth during this scene of distress; 
though I was hardly able to pen them at the time, 
and scarcely able to write them now : but it is 
her wish to have them to-morrow. Here followeth 
the words. {Signed) 

JANE TOWNLEY, 

ANN UNDERWOOD. 



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Jane 13, 1804, 

Dear Miss Tow?iIcy, 

THERE is no pen can paint, 
per heart conceive, the horror and misery I have 
felt, ever since the book, that is now printing in 
London, has come to my view; when I saw it was 
placed wrong, it went as a dagger to my heart 2 
and though I was answered, the Lord had permit- 
ted it for wise ends, and you took all the bl^me to 
yourself, yet the thoughts of Mr. Sharps letter 
struck as a dagger through my heart and soul; as 
I remembered hearing it read, he had altered the 
title-page, which I then understood was only the 
outside leaf, that I did not approve of myself; but 
when the book was brought, that I saw he had 
altered the whole, self-reflection cut me to the 
soul; $nd, till the Lord is pleased to take this 
burden from me, my life is miserable. All the 
heavenly joy I felt before, is now vanished into 
horror and misery greater than I can bear. I do 
not believe there is a more wretched being, this 
side the grave, at present: for I am fallen 
from the height of happiness to the depth of mi- 
sery. Instead of heavenly Joys too great for me 
to bear, my heart and soul wanting to be enlarg- 
ed to bear them ; I now feel sorrow, hprror, mi- 
sery and woe, no pen can paint, no heart can con- 
ceive, and, no tongue can express, what I now 
feel; my life I cannot bear. What will be my 
fatal end? All the sufferings that I have had 
from 1792 to this day, are nothing to the suffer- 
ings I now feel ; for I am now upon the wrack of 
misery, wishing for death, but cannot die, and in 
this state am afraid to die, fearing I should meet 
an angry God, that I have innocently offended. 



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not knowingly or designedly. But from whence 
came all my. misery that I cannot bear? Am I my 
own murderer? Have I been doing wrong? And 
is this the way that the Lord is come to punish 
me ? Was mine false fire ? Was mine false Love ? 
Was mine a delusion from the devil? must now 
be my enquiry: — For the Lord hath now hid his 
face from me; and the devil, with all his hellish 
power, has now taken possession of my souh 
Who shall I reflect upon? If my sufferings are 
that I am wrong, being led bv a wrong spirit, 
that is now come to shew himself in his true co- 
lors, and the horror and misery I must soon be in 
•—-then I must say, cursed men! that when I be- 
sought them, in the bitterness of my soul, they 
would not hear me, but do as the devil said they 
would, to make me believe it was the God of 
heaven. Then, by what arts are we all betrayed? 
Is there a God, must now be my enquiry? And 
will HE give all this power to the devil? LORD 
have mercy upoa me ! CHRIST have mercy upon 
me, and deliver my soul from the jaws of death, 
from the power of hell, from the pit of destruc- 
tion ; for in thee, my God, I have trusted : forsake 
me not in this trying hour; but let thy light shine 
upon me, and shew me where the error lies, which 
way my sufferings came. Is it for the present? 
Is it for the past? We are all undone: for then 
the whole world lies in the power of the deviL 
If for the present* — pardon my iniquities, blot out ' 
my transgressions, in mercy, dear Lord! I pray 
thee, and remember them no more; for my trou- 
ble is greater than I can bear. The power of hell 
has taken hold of me, and there is none but a God 
can deliver me; for it is not all the powers on 
earth, that are in man, can now give me one 



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moment's pleasure: for, if the Lord do not de- 
liver mc, I am for ever undone. Now, I must 
leave ail to yourselves; for my direction seemeth 
quite over. If they were from the devil, it is 
time to be over: if it be of God, HE hath hid 
His Face from me; and, for a moment, HE hath 
forsaken me. But in loving kindness I trust HE 
will visit me, and not destroy me for a thing I am 
innocent of. I am, &c. 

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 

After writing this letter, she begged me 
[Underwood] to leave her to herself, and to take 
with me all the knives, and every thing that she 
could hurt herself with ; but not to go away, but 
stop in the adjoining room: when she went to 
prayers and tears, that the Lord would deliver 
her from her dreadful sufferings; which I did the 
same by her door. After a considerable time she 
opened the door, and her distressed looks I can- 
not describe. She said, she had no answer to her 
prayers, and we must direct ourselves: at which 
I cried out, we cannot direct ourselves; and there 
shall not another letter go out of the house, unless 
the LORD, in His unbounded love, mercy, and 
goodness, direct us, through thee. She said, she 
had no answer, and she could not direct us; and 
flung herself back in a chair, for a few minutes. 
It is too late to write you the particulars, though 
you shall have them in your next. Oh, what a 
day! and how the house has shook? 

(Sigaed) JANE TOWNLEY, 



AND 



ANN UNDERWOOD. 



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Here I shall go on with a continuation of Joanna! $ of- 
ferings of yesterday. 

'x 

June 13th, 1804. 

AT the time the horror of the devil was upon 
me, I felt I could not bear my existence : there* 
fore I desired Mrs. Underwood to take away every 
knife out of the room; that, in my despairing 
moments, I might not lay violent hands on my- 
self. As soon as she was gone, I fell on my knees 
in prayer, and could not avoid crying aloud ; but 
could not express all with my tongue, what I 
felt in my heart: but, finding I had no answer to 
my prayers, I arose, and was silent for some mi- 
nutes, listening if I could hear " the small still 
voice of the Lord." But, feeling no comfort, 
and hearing no answer, I opened the door, and 
desired Mrs. Underwood to send the letters by 
their own directions, as none were given to me. 
Mrs. Uuderwood, in floods of tears, said, we can- 
not direct ourselves; and no more letters shall go 
out of the house, unless the Lord, in His unbounded 
Love, Mercy, and Goodness, will direct us through 
thee. She then went and told MissTownley, no 
answer was given, no more directions from the 
Lord, The Lord had hid his face from us, and 
no more letters shall go out of this hpuse: for she 
felt in her heart, \C the Lord would not be pleased 
to direct us, we would not direct ourselves. She 
then^came back to me, and told me, that Miss 
Townley was upon her knees in prayer and tears., 
when Mrs. Underwood came back with this word. 
Here all were alarmed ; and they would do nothing 
of themselves, without the directions of the Lord 



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Then the Light of the Lord broke in upon mei 
and I walked the room, in tears, speaking these 

words :■ — 

*' I feel my JESUS is not *one; 
I feel my SAVIOUR will return; 

He'th hid his face, but now he's come; — 
A lediotis night shall a bright morning have: 
Then my soul shall take its old abode, 
And, cloth'd in flesh, I shall behold my God." 

My repeating these words, Underwood fell 
down upon her knees, to return thanks to the Lord : 
and, in an instant, a Spirit entered me, that took 
my senses; and I felt strength enough in me, as 
though I could crush the world to atoms. The 
Spirit spoke with power and fury, u Til chain the 
rebel to his den." I walked up and down the 
room, and shook the whole house ; for I was not 
myself. I could not stop my fury; words flew too 
fast to utter against the power of darkness: and 
I felt in myself power, that I thought, if he was 
present, that I could tear him to pieces; and should 
not have feared, had there been ten thousand men 
and devils before me. After this power ceased, 
I laid myself upon the bed, to compose myself 
for a little while. I soon was ordered to rise and 
write. The first words I penned, were, " Dear 
Lord! what Spirit hath been so powerful in me, 
this day." I was answered, " The shadow of the 
substance to come in all. The horror of hell that 
thou hast felt this day, some will come against 
thee in, by temptations — then v as a God I shall 
appear in thee, and cast the devils out of men by 
my power, as I broke in thee : but as I knew these 
things were too high for thee, without a veil be- 
tween, I caused Foley's illness, for thou to judge 
it a pleasing dream. Now I must explain that, 



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before I go atiy further, Mr. Foley's illness, with 
the other confusions, gave Satan the advantage 
over me: and, as I had written the day before 
that the Lord had ordained the thing concerning 
the book, and then to feel that horror and misery 
after, threw me into a dreadful state of despair* 
And now I shall go on, as it is spoke in verse. 

" And now I tell thee how I shall appear* 
In much more power then they all shall see : 
Than now, this day* I entered into thee. 
Because, in power, I did now appear, 
And now's the time I'll shake the earth once more. 
And they shall find ME in the woman's form; 
For hell- shall tremble now if shall be known. 
For now, I say* I'll chain the rebel down* 
And men shall tremble at my every sound ; 
For every heart I shall much stronger shake, 
Than ere thy walking in this room did make : 
And much more fury every foe will see, 
Than ere this day did now appear in thee. 
And now I'll tell thee of the words I spoke- 
When from My Silence I in thunder broke; 
So strong within thee then I did appear— 
I said, that hell should tremble and should fean 
I said, that man I surely would redeem, 
And they should find me in the woman's forms 
I said, no longer men should bruize my heel; 
But now my fury it should fall on hell. 
I said mankind should all begin, like thee, 
For to enquire, and long the truth to see. 
I saidj nly power should all in fury bieak : 
I said, the devil now hath laid his net--* 
I said, that in it he should sufely fall — 
I said, My Fury now should Conquer hell— » 
I said, the hearts of men I'd surely shake, 
And many hearts like thine I'd surely make; 
As full of horror when I do appear, 
That they like thee would say they could not bear 
The Agonies, I said, that they would feel, 
When they do know they're bruising now my heel; 

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And then, I said, they should repent like thee; 
1 said, thy sufferings they must know and see — 
And bring their guilt, like thee, before my view, 
And then enquiie, like thee, the truth tG know ; 
"Which way their guilt did lie upon their head, 
As thou enquircd'st the way thou wast betray'd. 
I said, before me every thing should come; 
And then I'd conquer iri the woman's form. 
I said, like thee mankind should surely break, 
And so enquire if the Lord did speak. 
For, now, the secret chamber doth appear, 
Where every mystery, I said, I should clear; 
And on the House Top this will sure be done 
I said, in po\ now I'd conquer ma«. 
So great in power now I would appear, 
For men should tremble, and the devils fear; 
For, now the tempter I'll bind to his den, 
And so the house by thee was shaken then, 
And so the iabric of the earth Til shake, 
And in ten minutes this and more I spoke— 
For sixteen minutes they did not appear 
After. 1 enter'cj ere I left thee here. 
And then, to prove to thee that that was true, 
Brought Foley's letter plain before thy view : 
Because his life I told thee 1 would spare, 
And he'd recover for to copy there, 
The very letter I unto him sent. 

let thy friends observe all that is penn'd, 
And every day and date they now must put, 
That men may judge the manner all was wrote : 
Or, else, I tell thee they will not appear, 
The way thou ordered every man to swear: 
Because that swearing they'll say thou'st forbid; 
And now by swearing must they ail proceed. 
] tell thee r yes, MY BIBLE to fulfil, 
And now My Covenant I tell thee still, 
Firm as the heavenly pillars it shall stand, 
For now 's the time 1T1 shake both sea and land. 
For all shall tremble, as thy friends did here, 
And then, with joy, they'll see their Lord appear, - 



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But in this manner should I come to man, 
I tell them plain, My Gospel could not stand; 
Because the Jews would all begin to say, 
Now the Messiah's come we plain do see, 
Ah,where's your Saviour in the woman's form! 
These wondrous miracles for to perform,: 
Or where's the Saviour that from her was horn, 
That ever made His foes so much submit, 
To cast their crowns and all beneath his feet? 
For now beneath me every soul shall fali ;■( 
For hell I'll conquer, and Til conquer all. 
And so My Law and Gospel I'll make true, 
And now My Covenant bring to their view — - 
And so go on to write thy pleasing dream, 
And in fhe end they'll surely sec it plain ; 
That men like Adam they are all asleep,— 
But, when they see the woman for to breik 
Upon the serpent in her fury there 
In words that all will tremble for to hear — 
Thou curs'd betrayer, as thou said'st of man ; 
But then in fury thou wilt surely come 
Against the serpent, and in rage dispute, 
While men will tremble, and they 11 all stand mute. 
JUNE 13, 1804. 

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 

Here follow the words that I had been writing 
on Tuesday morning, June 12, 1804, when Miss 
Townley andUuderwood brought me Mrs. Foley's 
letter. I shall begin at the words where I had be- 
gun in the morning, and their names are signed. 

June 12, 1804. 
Dear Miss Townley, 

I shall now give you the 
Communication that I had been writing on Tues- 
day morning, June 12th, when you brought me 
Mrs. Foley's letter, wherein it was suid, ttiat Mr 



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Foley was very ill indeed- — and you seemed 
thunderstruck at my saying I was glad of it, and 
desired you both to'sign your names to what I had 
been writing; where I had began, and where I 
had wrote to when you came. You know I had 
told you how dangerously ill I had been in the 
night, and marvelled the people in the house had 
not heard me groaning, The communication is 
as follows, 

" As restless as thou hast been this night; which 
is but q shadow of what the Clergy WILL FEEL 
that have turned back thy letters; and thy con- 
fusion of this morning, is but a shadow of their 
confusion that have mislaid their letters. What 
hurry will they be in to find them ? And say, as 
thou sayest, they must find them, or thou wilt not 
speak unto them. And when they have found 
them, they will see, they have as wrong misplaced 
their bibles, as thou hadst wrongly misplaced thy 
writings: and they will own, Townley hath found for 
then what they had lost, CHRIST in the woman, 
THE HELPMATE for man, to enter into a new 
covenant with man, that all the old may be done 
away, and all things become new: and the former 
shall not come into my mind ; for, behold, I create 
all things NEW. And this is My New Creation, 
— to place the forbidden fruit in man, that hath 
returned their letters, refusing to accept ME as a 
hHpnate in the woman. And this is my command 
nans they must tell the Bishops, one and all, 
anv of their Ministers they may send, that 

n produce their letters, and own they have kept 
them; but those that have returned their letters, 
ns evil, \ hey must not send. And My Chosen Men 

ust ^eil them, they will not meet ANY MAN 
to dispute with, but those that can swear, by Him 



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that Liveth, the letters were sent them, and they 
have kept them. And, if this cannot be found 
among the Church Clergy, let it be enquired 
among other Ministers: for I will make of the 
Church that are not of the Church, if they cannot 
be found in the Church. But there are THREE 
that I have reserved to myself, by sealing their 
names in the sealed book; that is, the Reverend 
Archdeacon Moore, the Reverend Chancellor 
Nutcombe, and the Reverend Mr. Pomeroy. 
Now, if these men have not had the letters sent 
to them, and returned them, they may have one 
given to them; but, if they have had one, and 
returned it, they shall not appear. So they must 
say, by Him that Liveth, every man is come ac- 
cording to order; u for God is a God of Order, 
and not of Confusion." And this is the new Cove- 
nant I will make with man ; and that proverb shall 
be no more in Israel, " The Fathers have eaten 
sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on 
edge." But, now, 'tis the soul that sinneth shall 
die; for the iniquities of the Father shall no longer 
rest upon the Children. For THIS IS THE 
NEW COVENANT I am making with man, 
and I will be a Covenant-keeping God: if they 
do not break My Law, they shall have part in the 
first Resurrection, and then, of the second, death 
hath no power; for these are the first Redeemed 
upon the Earth, and their leaves shall be for the 
healing of the nations. And if any man add to, 
or take from this Covenant, he shall add to his 
; own destruction, and have his name blotted out 
from the Tree of Life, to have no part in it. Now, 
if any man ask thee, by what authority thou hast 
done these things, let this be thy answer — Let 
them tell thee, by what authority they rejected 



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Christ to be the Helpmate for man in the woman, 
— when they say, as in Adam all died, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive. And what they 
know not now, they sfratt know 'hereafter; for I 
am come to fulfil My Bible." 

So far had I written, when you came with Mrs. 
Foley's letter; and here both your names stand 
(Townley and Underwood). Now do you mar- 
vel ! I rejoiced at Mr. Foley's illness; knowing, 
if it was not from the Lord, it was better for he 
and me to die, than to have this Covenant go out 
in the name of the Lord ; as I am ordered to have 
it printed. If it was from the Lord, I knew Mr. 
Foley's il!ness would be set for a clear sign forme 
if it was from God: if not, I. had rather die. 
Therefore, this must he printed by Mr. Foley, 
with the reasons I assigned ; and the answer to his 
sickness, with this Covenant of the Lord, that I 
was writing when his letter came, must now be 
put in print, with the answer that was given me 
the same day of his recovery, which took place be- 
fore my letter could reach his hand — by the letter 
I received the following day: and the shadow of 
my rejoicing then, brought the substance to me 
the following day; when both wonderfully broke 
in upon me,— the Power of God — and the Truth 
of his Word — as I felt the One — and saw the 
Other, by Mr. Foley's letter. 

(Signed) JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 






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thursday, June 14, 1804. 

Dear Miss Town/ey, 

And now I shall direct thee how to dispute 
with the Learned — when a Judge of Assize comes 
to pass sentence on a Thief and a Murderer, for 
whom doth he pass that sentence? Thou answer- 
est for the person whom the thief, or the murderer 
hath murdered. But suppose the Judge answer I 
will not cast the thief and the murderer for the 
sake of the person he had robbed and murdered ; 
because he despiseth them much more than he 
did the murderer, or the thief — would you not 
call him an unjust Judge ? Thou answerest, ye.?, 
he could not be fit for a Judge, having no Honor 
nor Justice in him ; for how could he then try any 
Cause, if he was partial in the Law ? — Then let 
this be laid before the Judges— And Til proceed 
further — Would he not for his Honor say, though 
1 fear not GOD, nor regard the man that was 
murdered; yet, I will relieve this Womr;i of her 
Adversary, lest she weary me with often coining. 
For, now I will bring the Cause to a man murder- 
ing a woman's hufband — and the Judge refused 
to pass sentence on the murderer, because he had 
more regard for the murderer than he had for the 
man that was murdered: —but if the Wife is cry- 
ing daily for vengeance, wearying the Judge to be 
avenged of her injured Hufband, saying, the mur- 
derer is taken ; he is bound in Prison : it is the 
Law of our Land ; and you will not try him for 
murdering my Hufband— you cannot try ANY 
mnrderer, for then you break that Law — And 
what is a Law for One, is a Law for all ! And if 
you let that murderer go untried, by what autho- 
rity could I be tried, if I murdered you in re- 



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e ? — Or, by what authority should another 
Judge condemn me ? Would he not say you had 
broke the Law, freed the murderer, and not suf- 
fered murderers to be tried and condemned? And 
my love is so great for my Hufband, that if I can- 
not be avenged of it by yolir trying the man that 
murdered him, I will find a way of revenge to 
murder you ! What answer would this unjust 
Judge make, any othfer than this? Though I fear 
not GOD, nor regard the man; yet, I will avenge 
this Woman of her Adversary, lest she Wearies 
me with often coming ; or, seek my life in her re- 
venge. In this manner let them dispute with men 
of Honor, what is a Law for one* is for all. And 
now I will come to the Laws of GOD. The law of 
GOD was to avenge the woman's adversary by 
My Death — but how can it be avenged by My 
Death, before a woman bringeth fortb her cause 
against him. It is like a man being murdered^ and 
the murdeter let go without any Action being 
brought against him : as this has been done by 
great men, because of money the murder hath 
been passed over — and for want of Love in the 
Wife, the revenge hath not been sought after. 
Now, Joanna wilt thou do by Me, as the Groom s 
wife did, give up My death without revenge, be- 
cause the Bishops are great men, when I tell thee 
it is impossible for the cause to be brought forward 
against the devil by man without the woman? for 
it was the woman that was betrayed by the devil, 
and io the woman the promfee was made— and 
though I was murdered, My murderer was never 
brought to Justice, by any woman till now; nor^ 
the author of My death. Now, if thou givest 
up the Cause to man, to let them to act one step 
contrary to what I have ordered thee, then thou 



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takest away My Life, as thou hast taken away 
Townley's bounty, and thou causest Me to be mur- 
dered twice — But I hear thy enquiry. Is the fatal 
stroke committed by thy unfortunate hand, then 
thou canst not live? But tremble no more : — thou 
hast done right by my command. I know thou 
could'st not write, if thou fearest thou hast done 
wrong: but I tell thee it was my command, to 
take away the one thousand; because T will have 
the one thousand to reign in power the second 
time, by the woman's ordering the cause to be 
removed that caused her fall ; and, to shew her 
perfect obedience the second time, the cause is 
brought forward by the woman. She is, the se- 
cond time, put to the trial of hrr obedience. 
Now, if thou standest in T hy obedience the serond 
time, as thou hast in printing thy book, then, the 
six thousand that are not taken away, brmgeth 
ME the second time to come in power and great 
glory; for there is no one can hurt ME but thee: 
and, hitherto, thou hast done all things well, for 
ME to come the second time and reign in power. 
And, now, in power I will reign and rule, if all 
thy friends say, as thine said the day that is past, 
they will not do any thing without MY direction 
is given to thee: therefore, I hid my face from 
thee, before they had given their answers they 
would do nothing without ME ; and then I shewed 
the Shadow of My power; and, if they continue 
to copy after these women, they shall see the 
Substance of My* power." Lord, save me by thy 
power! let me not say with Peter, though all men 
deny thee, yet will not I; and yet, afterwards, did 
deny: but that fall would make my end more 
fatal, and Thy honor lost. " Joanna, I answer 
thee, I know thy fears will kill thee, if I do not 

D 



.0, 



assure thee, the gates of hell shall not prevail 
against thee." (Signed) 

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. 

June 14, 1804. 

Continuation of Joanna's History. 






" A large Crock, or Pot of Gold. Arid 

now, faid he, fhould I be fuch a fool to go and 
tell the man, that I ihould dig up his French nut- 
tree becaufe of my dream, and then (hare with, 
me the money. The man's dream was anfwered, 
for he knew the French nut-tree was in his own 
garden; fo he went home pleafed with the jour- 
ney, and in the night he began to dig, aad found 
a large crock of gold : but being a poor man, he 
told the matter that he worked for, that he had a 
friend in London who was dying, and he rauft go 
and fee him, which he did* and afterwards came 
down all in clofe Mourning, faying, that his friend 
had given him three Hundred Pounds, and as he 
liked the little fpdt he lived in, he would buy it. 
So he bought his Houfe and Garden-land for ever. 
Then he faid he would alter his Garden, and dig 
up the French Nut Tree, where he found a large 
Cheft of Gold under the Crock of Gold. He could 
then boldly claim it his own, and rewarded the 
man that told him his dream. He left a great 
deal to the poor when he died, and houfes for 
them to live in. — - — But to return to my Fathers 
dream — you muft underfland, that when my Fa- 
ther had this dream, he was in Getfham, fourteen 
miles from Heavy-tree, and my Father knew 
nothing of my fealing up my writings, till a 
month after I came to Heavy-tree, and furprized 



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us by faying he came in the Bifhop's Carriage, at 
which we all laughed. He faid, if he did not 
come in it, he rode behind it, which was true; for 
the Bifhop had been out an airing, and his car- 
riage overtook my father, when he ordered his 
coachman to flop, as he faw my father going 
towards Exeter, and enquired how far he was 
going: he faid, to Heavy-tree, to Mr. Wolland's, 
to fee his daughter; that he came from Getfham. 
The Bifhop then ordered his fervant to alight 
from his horfe, and affift my father to get up be- 
hind his carriage. My father then enquired of 
the fervant, who the gentleman was, that he might 
know how to return him thanks when he alighted. 
The fervant answered, it was the Bifhop of Exeter. 
My father faid, he was glad he aiked ; or elfe he 
fhould have thanked his Honor, inftead of his 
Lordfhip. Mr.Wolland told my father, the fervant 
only mocked him ; for he thought the Bifhop would 
not have condefcended, in that manner, to have 
flopped his coach to take up a poor man : though 
that Bifhop bore a mod noble charader, for it was 
Bifhop Buller. When he had baffled my father 
about it, he faid he would go to the turnpike, and 
know what gentleman went through at that iiiue 
with his coach; the turnpike-man laid, like the 
fervant, it was the Bifhop: at which w r e were fur- 
prifed, and he furprifed us with the dream t&at is 
mentioned, as we knew it was the fame night I 
fealed up my writings. I mentioned this fiiiiple 
thing, as both are deeply explained to me. And 
now I am ordered to go on with the hiftory of my 
Lovers, as they are explained aifo, When 1 was 
young in years, 1 had many Lovers: but the firft 
I indulged the company of was Noah Bishop, a 
farmer's ion in Sidmputh; as I kept houie ibr my 



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brother at Sidraouth. Then, after we had beea 
acquainted for many months, my friends hegan to 
be againft my keeping company with him ; as they 
thought another of more fortune would make me 
an offer, but that had no weight with me : though 
many people faid, that Noah was a very pnffionate 
man, and would foon break my heart if I had him. 
Thus they plagued me for a long time: at laft, I 
was determined to rry his temper, by provoking 
him to anger, and upbraided him with going to 
another, at which he threw himfelf in a violent 
paffiou that aftoniflhed me; and faid, he wifhed 
the tongues of the people were in hell burning. 
I made for anfwer, he might with mine there too, 
if I was his wife and offended him. He faid f no; 
it was his fervent love for me, that provoked him 
fo much to anger with every one that let me again ft 
him : but his arguments did not prevail, I faw 
the fury of his anger, and foon after broke off the 
acquaintance; though I confefs I had equal love 
for him, but I thought it was better once fmart 
than always ache, and time and prudence would 
wear off love, by keeping my thoughts in love 
to My CREATOR: ib I broke off my courtlhip. 
After that, they were daily wounding my ears 
that Noah was miferable ; that he faid he would 
as foon be jdead as alive, and he was ill on my 
account: and, when he found he could not die, 
he was determined to go to tea; for he could 
never live to fee me the wife of another. This 
opened every wound of my heart afiefh, and 
kindled love ftronger than ever, and I was deter- 
mined to have him if he returned again ; for I 
thought I had rather break my heart by his paf- 
fions, than break my heart by my own cruelty 
and wound us both. 



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Here follows a letter from Miss Townley and 
Mrs. Underwood, to the Rev. T. P Foley. 

Monday, June i8, 1804* 
Reverend Sir, 

I muft leave off my letter to you from 
our dear friend Joanna, and make some faint at- 
tempt to describe what we have been witness to 
this day, Monday, June 18, Miss Townley can- 
not hold her pen, therefore I muft take it up. 
But I shall begin from yefterday morning, when 
she came down dressed in white, and said she 
supposed we should wonder to see her: but she 
took up two different colored gowns, and was told 
she muft put on white, and wear it for three days. 
After that, she went up flairs to her own secret 
chamber: she sat down to write, but a trembling 
came over her, and she was ordered to put down 
her pen; for there her pen should drop, except 
signing the Seals. She then came down for me 
to write, and I began the copy of your letter of 
yefterday, Sunday, June 17. After I had wrote 
a little time she seemed in great agonies, and said 
I muft take her key, and lock up all her books 
and papers, and deliver them to her brother, and 
see them packed up, and signed, and sealed, by 
her brother, Miss Townley, and me. After that 
was done, she went on with tolerable composure 
for some time; but was told, she muft go through 
the hiftcry of her Lovers, and her Father, whicfi 
seemed to give her pain; as she said, she could 
see the depth of the words, how they flood a type 
to the nation : but, at supper, she seemed cheerful; 
and, when she went to bed, she could not get her 



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gown off. I went to her assilUnce, and found her 
arms quite red. with trying to get it off; but she 
was told, she had put on her clothing, but could 
not get it off without assiftance. About eleven 
o'clock I heard a thumping in her room, and went" 
up to her door, where 1 heard her lamenting the 
miserable blind state man was in, through (he 
arts of the devil. I stayed a great while at her 
door; but, hearing her quiet, I came away. This 
morning she requefted both Miss Townley and 
me would go and copy for her. We began about 
her father, and she was extremely affe&ed ; but, 
the further she went, the greater her diftress 
seemed:- and, when she came to her Father's ago- 
nies, after his being in a passioir with her, that 
she was worked up in such a manner she could 
not ftand ; for she had been walking the room in 
great agonies. While we were penning it, the 
power of the Lord broke in upon her soon after 
ten o'clock, and she continued speaking till one. 
Miss Townley supported her in the chair all the 
time, and I got pillows to lay on her lap, for I 
feared she would beat herself to pieces. The 
agony and fury she seemed to be in, made her to 
appear in great strength : and she stamped the 
floor till she made the house shake, and continued 
ill the time an explanation of the Bible, from 
•the parable of her Lovers and Father; where she 
ended and seemed composed, and said she would 
lie down on the bed, and desired we would leave 
her, and finish our letters for the post. But we 
had not been down ten minutes, belore I .heard a 
noise, and went up ftairs and found her upon the 
floor: where she continued, ftretched out upon 
her back, for an hour; saying, u he muft on the 
ground claim the land as his own." I attempted 



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to get her on a mattress; but she said, our Saviour 
was on the ground*, and so must she. Remember, 
this is the sixth day, My labor muft be done. 
Here Underwood dropped her pen. I think it 
right to inform you, that juft before the Power 
of the Lord came upon her, she said she was sick 
unto death; and, as she vomited violently, I ran 
down (lairs for warm. water, but she said she cou^d 
not drink it. I then offered her wine, which she 
immediately drank; and said, it was now the time 
the vats would run over with new wine. To give 
a regular description of all that has passed to-day, 
Is impossible,* but, that the Lord will enable us to 
recoiled the words she spoke, I have not the smal- 
left doubt. I attempted to pen her words, but it was 
impossible they flowed so faft. Your letter I re- 
ceived this morning and read it to her, and she 
approved it all, both letter and proof sheet— and 
said I muft send the Printed letter and proof copy 
to a Gentleman here, who has been twice for in- 
formation ; for she was told he would be the means 
of awakening thousands: and as soon as I had 
written these words I was called up flairs, and we 
have put her to bed— she desired us to waslvher 
feet, which Underwood and I did, and put her 
on clean Linen. She said she knew not why, but 
we muft do it — and one of us was always to set 
up with her. I hav^e sent you all I can; poor soul ! 
to see how she has bruized herself with the thump- 
ing on the Floor. 'She desired me to tell you, 
that she dreamt a few nights ago, that we put her 
on the night cap we did. 

Adieu, &c. 
JANE TOWNLEY. 



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Continuation of Joannas History. 

Monday, June 18, 1804, 

This resolution I had fixed in my mind, to 
renew the acquaintance, if he returned again on a 
Sidmouth Fair-day, In the morning I met him, 
and he asked me if I intended to go to the Fair 
- — I answered, yes, — so we parted: but I deter- 
mined in my heart to go to the Fair on his account. 
And, when I came to the Fair, I met with many 
of my acquaintance, who pressed me to join their 
company, young men and maids: but I made ex- 
cuses, and said, I could not; for my heart was ftill 
with him. I then met others, that pressed me the 
same ; I made the same excuse again, that I was in 
pursuit of my brother, to go home, but, going up thro' 
the Fair, I met Noah and my brother together. He 
ihen pressed me to join him; but, for my life I 
could not: my hand and heart seemed as though 
they were bolted, and I desired my brother to go 
for the horse, and go home diredlly. My brother 
went away for the horse, and Noah went with us. 
While my brother went into the yard for the horse, 
Noah intreated me to go in and drink with him 
for old acquaintance, if I would not for new. I 
told him, I would not go in either for old or new; 
if he made as many words as there were ftars in 
the sky, or ftones in the ftreet — but the dejedion 
of his looks cut me to the heart: and, when I was 
upon the horse, I could have given my life to have 
been back with him in the Fair; and could scarce 
speak to my brother, going home : which he per- 
ceived, and said, if I was so melancholy he would 
carry me back a&ain. My brother exclaimed, this 



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is the way of the women; you refused to go with 
him when he intreated you, and now you are as 
melancholy as he. I then spent a reftless night ; 
which was renewed the next day by a young wo- 
man of my acquaintance, who said, the hard shower 
of rain that came on in the evening made all the 
youngfters in Woolbrook go into a Public House, 
together, and they had all their sweethearts but 
Noah, and her heart ached to see how miserable 
he appeared; and. there was a young woman in 
the room who was juft mad about him, but he 
took no notice of her. I then determined, it ever 
he spoke to me any more, my resolutions were 
fixed ' never to slight him more. The Sunday 
after I was going to milking in my brother's 
ground, and met Noah; he intreated me to let 
him go with me to keep up the cows, but my heart 
was bolted in a moment. I said, my cows wanted 
no keeping up, neither would I accept of his 
company: but I had. not gone twenty yards from 
him, before my heart denied what my trembling 
lips had spoken; and I thought I would give the 
world for his company, and made a resolution in 
my mind, that I would never be such a fool any 
more. But, the Sunday following, he put me to 
the like trial, by my brother's having a beautiful 
Pear Free; and the young man who was with 
him asked me leave to let him go in and have a 
few pears. Noah asked me if I would give him the 
same liberty: I very gravely answered NO — but 
Richard who was with him might carry him out 
some, but I would not permit him to come into 
the orchard. Here my heart was torn again? 
I thought to myself, what a ftubborn creature was 
I, to plague myself^— to plague him. I then de- 
termined to be mafter of my ftubborn heart, as I 

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judged ifc-r-and thought to myself he never should \ 
try in vain— neither did he: for he fixed his re~ ! 
solution to go to sea, but did not go. And when 
a young man persuaded him to go again, and told 
him, if he had been accepted as Noah had, he : 
would try again, and not give it up, for he was 
sure I liked him. But Noah answered. I have- 
tried often enough, and it is always the same, and 
all her friends are against me; and now, if I die 
for her sake, 111 never try more. These words 
cut me to the soul: yet I admired thtf nobleness 
of his spit it, and was convinced his passion was 
love, when he held me so strong by my hands, 
that hurt my hands and wrifts for many days— * 
and said he would not let me go, before I had told^ 
my authors, who had told such lies againft him.* 
All these pondejings in my heart drew my love 
almoft to madness, that nothing but religion could 
keep me in my senses. My sisters knew the ftate 
of my mind, and persuaded me to leave Sidmquth, 
and come back to Getsham to mv father's. I an- 
swered, No: you may kill me, or you may drown 
me; but I will not leave the place where he is 
I muft see him, if I cannot have him. We went 
to Newton Fair; and I had met with an accident 
that day in my eye, that I was almost blind, by. 
what they call in Devonshire a Cuckol-button 
getting into it. As I was going up through the 
orchard, in diftra&ion of love, I ran my eye en- 
tirely againft it, and they persuaded me not to go 
to the Fair; but I was determined to go, for I 
knew Noah would be there : but how was my heart 
torn, when I met him in the Fair, and he passed 
me by unnoticed. J then felt I could not bear 
myself and desired my sifters to return home, 
who were laughing at nie for saying, when I first 



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espied him, a there life is, there he is." As wg 
were going home, we met his Brother Nathaniel 
Bishop. He asked me, what was the matter with 
rny eye? I told him. He asked, if I could not 
cure it? I told him, No. Nathaniel answered, 
can't Noah cure it? I cried out, in madness, if 
he can, he wont: at which my sifters reproved 
me; and said, I had declared my love to his bro- 
ther. I said* I did not care if I had ; for I wished 
to awaken his passion to return again : for I had 
rather die with him than live without him. My 
sifters went home the next day, and told my fa- 
ther and mother the dreadful ftate I was in. My 
father raved in agonies; and said, my former sins 
are brought to my remembrance : How many wo- 
men's hearts have I broken by Love! He walked 
the chamber, my sifter said, like a madmari ; Cry- 
ing out,— now it is come home upon me: for that 
ftiaid, who is the delight of my soul, is now wounded 
the same. In this manner my father lamented 
that ever he had courted a woman, and not mar- 
ried her, when he knew her passions of love were ' 
so ftrong for him: but, after he had broken the 
hearts of many women, he married his firft wife 
tmt of pity, because he saw her upon a sick bed; 
What I had appointed, HE, the Lord had disap- 
pointed, concerning the remainder of this hiftory. 

(Signed) 
JOANNA SOUTHCOTTV 

JANE TOWNLEY* 



3d 



A copy of a Letter of Mrs. SouthcotCs from 
Miss Totvnley to the Rev. T. P Foley. 

June, ig, 1804. 
Reverend Sif y 

After the sufferings Mrs. Southcott 
went through yesterday, she was obliged to be un- 
dressed and go into bed, for in her agonies fight- 
ing with the devil, she had beat herself black and 
blue, and was too faint and weak to set up. She 
then sat up in her bed, and went on with her His- 
tory, that she was ordered to pen, particularly as 
the whole was explained to her. She often felt 
faint with dying sweats, and told us not to be a- 
larmed, if she fainted away. Her words made us 
leave our pens, and go to her bed side, and see, 
what a fainting state she was in. After that she 
recovered and grew better, and told us she muft 
go on with her Hiftory, and begged we would ftay 
up if ir was till midnight, forshe muft go through 
that day— but many things she cut so short, that 
you cannot understand, till you see it made more 
plain before you. She was so ill, that we brought 
another bed in the Room to sleep on the Floor, as 
we could not bear to leave her. Juft at midnight 
v»s we had finifhed, and made up the bed on the 
floor for ourselves, as we could not bear to return 
and' leave her that night alone by herself — She 
came out of the Bed, and said she would lay on 
the floor herself, and we should sleep in her bed* 
Soon after she laid on the floor, all the rage and 
horror of hell broke in upon her, and the devil 
to!--' hc-r, she should see her midnight hour now; 
for he would bui tt in and tear her to pieces- — but 



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Knowing the Lord would not permit him, in ago- 
nies she lay in prayer, begging the Lord would be 
pleased to shew His Loving Kindness to her again, 
for the horrors of hell were more than she could 
bear. We were witnesses to her sufferings and a- 
gohies and kneeled down to prayer. She then 
desired Underwood to go and bring her that Com- 
munication which was given on Sunday morning 
concerning David — WhileUnderwood was reading 
it in a voice not her own, but seemed like a mild 
sweet voice of an Angel in a singing Tone, which 
she said she could not read it any other way. The 
devil then said to Joanna ^ curse the zvords"— -Joanna 
threw herself in a Passion with (he devil, and ptay- 
ed the Lord to deliver her from him. Then she 
called for her Bible, and opened to the 52 chapter 
of Isaiah, and found Joy and Comfort break in 
upon her from the 6 verse. "Therefore My peo- 
ple shall know My Name — therefore they shall 
know in that Day, that I AM HE that doth speak, 

behold it is I "- Here her chains began to 

burst. She then opened again to the 12 chapter 
of Ecclesiasticus, the 12, and 23, veises struck 
forcibly upon her. K Who will pity a Charmer 
" that is bitten with a Serpent, or any Such as come 
" nigh wild Beasts." The latter close of the l$ f 
44 lest he seek to take thy seat, and thou at the last 
44 remember my Words, and be pricked there- 
14 with." These words were forcibly answered her* 
1 — "That none would pity her, if she gave the Ser* 
44 pent room to sting her: — if she gave up her 
44 Faith; as he had been tempting ner : — for that 
44 serpent alluded to the devil ; and their Bibles 
44 men did not underfiand. For every man of 
" feeling would pity another, that was stung by 
"a natural serpent, or fall in the way of wild 



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Kl Beafts. But she was the Charmer no man would 
v< pity — her foes would rejoice — her friends would 
" despise her — and satan's potoer would come in 
4C her stead to have thg World totally loft; for 
44 the Lord cannot a& but with Juftice, Truth, 
u and Honor to plead with the devil, and deflroy 
u him," Now you see what a situation she ftands 
in ; therefore, she desires her Friends to tell all 
they have no proposals to make- — It all muft be as 
the Lord dire&s her. After spending one hour in 
misery she was comforted, though she did not feel 
the power of the Spirit of God break in upon her* 
as before ; bat she called to mind these words. 
"The setting Sun will feel a setting ftroke." She 
laid awake till day light came, and she refused to 
drink wine or beer. Now I shall come to this 
Morning Tuesday, June the 19th 1804.— u Joanna 
" dreamt, in the morning, that the devil came to 
u her bed side with all the horrors of hell to destroy 
" her, she felt his hand, and broke the top of his 
" finger." She then dreamt that a man said, he 
had outwitted the devil by his own craft. After 
that she dreamt she was going to some place with 
little Richard Foley; but going into a House she 
left him, and went away without him:— As she 
was walking through some beautiful Fields, she 
recollected the dear Child was left behind, 
and felt herself hurried and confused, and thought 
she would make haste back to seek him; but to 
her aftonishment, she heard his cry in an adjoining 
Field; he was crying like a mad Child, my Jan- 
ney, my Janney. I pursued my steps with eager- 
ness to go where I heard his cries* and to my Joy 
and aftonishment saw a Woman enter the Freld 
With the Child in her arms. I ran with eagerness 
to embrace him ; he sprang into my a^ms with 



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eagerness, and threw his Head into my bosom, as 
though he would have died with Joy, and I felt 
equal pleasure. His dear little Face was swelled 
with tears, and covered over with a bathing 
sweat. 

" Now, Joanna, thee I'll answer**- 

As the child did then appear ; 

Perfect so, I now do tell thee, 

Are my sufferings for thee here. 

But to make true, before your view 

The Hermit in disguise; 

I cannot slay my rival foe 

Refore 1 do chastize. 

My honor here, to prove it clear 

That me thou hast obeyed ; 

And then my agonies you'll hear, 

When I do bruise his head — ■ 

* And now to Foley 'b letter look— 
The shadow does appear; 
And all shall iind I Am the root, 
Th^t do these branches bear. 
Now I'll gcKon to answer men, 
From what is said before: 
The agonies the Child was in, 
Do in my heart appear. 
The love of thine, they all will find, 
That thou hadst for the Child : 
But greater love in him was found* 
Let no one here be foil'd. 
The dream of him must now be seen, 
Unto your Land appear ; 

, And in thy writings 't must be known, 
I plac'd the shadow there. 
Then in the child, when so he smil'd 
Upon my every friend ; 
And now you'll find, the time's at hand, 
Lshall the same descend. 
But first they'll see, 1 now tell thee, 

* I had written s* Ut f whta Mr, Foley's letter cars?. 



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ME like the child appear : 

For now I'll come to answer man 

From what was said before — - 

And let the Noahs in your land, 

Now like him to appear — 

And thfcn they'll see, the mystery, 

A Noah must be found ; 

And read the chapter now of he, 

And tremble at the sound : 

For I said there he must appear; 

And if you him deny,f 

Much greater agonies you'll beat*, 

Than thou didst bear that day : 

When thou'st complain, 'tis all in vain 

He never will return — • 

No, no, I tell you 'tis too late, 

For to refuse the man : — 

A Noah here, Til now appear, 

And thy First Love fiow see: 

Because my heart he did ensnare, 

And gain'd the love of thee. 

But it was I, that dwelt on high, 

Then kept thee from that man : 

For in the end, 'twas my intend, 

I, in that name should stand. 

To shew you clear, the Noahs here 

May all turn back like he — 

I'll try no mpre, the time is o'er, 

She put me off too long : 

I'll sooner see my misery, 

Than e'er turn back again. 

Then Noah's flood, the deluge stood, 

And Noahs you'll become,' 

To perish in the every flood, 

If you will not return. 

Because that here the Type appears, 

Her heart you plain do see, 

How strong in love her passions were, 

And so 'tis now by me. — 

For I Am come the Lover strong, 

Of all the human race: 

f The 54M chapter of Isaiah, and Qtk verse. 



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That do not do, as thou hast done 
Thy Lover to disgrace, 
I say with lies ; let men grow wise—** 
I'll place it every way : 
Because My Bible you may see, 
For here the Type doth lay ; 
Now in these two, brought to your view* 
A Noah to be plac'd : 
But when the husband is the Lord- 
Look deep, ye fallen race, 
How it should come so plain to man. 
And these Two Lovers see : 
But he the Bridegroom could not stand, 
My Bible saith 'tis ME, 
That must appear the Bridgroom here, 
When Noah's flood do come : 
Then see how love did both ensnare, 
To drown the eyes of them* 
Because in thee I oft did see ■ 
Thy eyes in floods of tears : 
And just the same I know in he, 
When he in deep despair; 
Did say no more he'd not appear, 
If he died for thy sake — 
Then now, you Noahs all take care 
Like him you do not break : 
For if you do, I tell you true 
My Love will all be gone; 
And bring the whole unto thy view, 
How cold thy heart is come 
Unto the man that here doth stand; 
And 1 shall stand the same: 
If men do say, like he that day, 
They'd sooner die, than turn :— • 
Then sure thy pride must be appli'd; 
For I shall leave them all : 
But if they now return to ME, 
My heart like thine shall fall; 
Inflam'd with love they now shall provfc 
Their SAVIOUR to appear: 
Because in he you all shall see, 
I AM the Noah there.—* 



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The Root and Offspring (o appear, 
Then let the Branches come : 
And let their love like your's to prove- 
And then the earth you'll see 
In every blessing to abound, 
In love and harmony. 
But it was I ? that dwell on High, 
Did then ordain that stroke : 
To shew My Bible plain that way, 
How Noah's love was broke — 
But here the man I'll not condemn, 
'Twas I that bolt'd the door; 
Because My Bible Fd make plain, 
And prove a Noah there 
Did- first incline thy heart and mind, 
To feel thy passions strong :— 
But in that chapter all shall find, 
Thy husband he must come : 
A widow here thou didst appear 
Forsaken then by He ; 
And know the man reject'd thy Laud; 
Then now the mystery see — 
The thing is plain, if learned men 
Could weigh the matter deep. 
Such thing I never would ordain'd 
To make the likeness break ; 
To shew the man, that in him stand, 
A Noah then by name, 
Who did reject thy every hand 
When heart-felt love inflam'd : 
And thou the same, I know thy name 
When Love did thee ensnare : 
But it was I that dwelt on high 
Prevented th' union there. 
Because to all Fd prove the call, 
'Tis like My Bible plac'd ; 
And now's the time IM1 prove to all, 
Your MAKER so shall burst. 
For Noah's flood in love both stood, 
And floods of tears came on ; 
And now I tell you for your good, 
I'll bring it so to man. 



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But do not say, like him that day, 
It shall be in despair 
If they will all turn back to ME, 
My hand and heart they'll share." 

(Signed) 
JANE TOWNLEY. 

A Letter from Miss Townley (being a copy of 
Joanna Southcott's) to the Rev .T. P. Foley. 

Reverend Sir, ' 

Joanna being weak and faint with 
the fatigue of the sixth day, laid down on the bed 
for some hours, while I was finishing your letter ; 
but she awoke with a most beautiful and heavenly- 
dream, though she could not recollect it ; but it 
seemed to be with the power of GOD breaking in 
strong upon her. Here I will Rest from My Labor. 
All Old things shall be done away ; and all things 
shall become New. No longer shall My Spirit 
strive with man, but I will destroy man whom I 
have created, that will not enter into the New 
Covenant with Me: for now My Delight shall be 
with the Sons of men, that enquire what the Lord 
hath said, and what HE hath spoken concerning 
them ; and they shall be MINE in the day that I 
make up My Jewels ; and I will spare them as 
a man spareth his own Son that serveth him. For 
now, I will wound, and I will heal ; I will kill, 
and I will make alive ; I will cast down, and I will 
raise up ; for, a quick work will the Lord do upon 
the Earth. And my new covenant shall stand with 
man; and whosoever will enter into it, let him 
seek ME, and he shall find ME: let them call 



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tipon ME f and I AM ready to answer. I AM 
HE that created all things; that filleth the Hea- 
vens with MY Majesty — that filleth the Earth 
with My Goodness— and that filleth hell with My 
terrors. And now the Heavens shall be filled with 
My Majesty — the Earth shall be filled with My 
Goodness — and hell shall be filled with My Ter- 
rors. For now, I will brei?k out on the Right hand, 
.and on the Left: I will kill and destroy at once : 
My Anger is kindled — My fury shall go forth — 
and My Lpving- kindness shall save to the utmost 
all them that now come unto ME. For I have 
placed the Chapter before You, and they shall 
know Thou art the Woman 5 a Widow in thy 
Youth and forsaken; grieved in spirit and rejected 
by man, and refused. But I call thee as a Wo- 
man forsaken, and his name (Noah) stands as a 
Type unto you all : for as the floods of Love where 
in you Two, so are the floods of My Love coming 
to Man : for in rest and peace, ye shall possess 
your souls, after I have brought My Mighty work 
to pass I know thy heart trembleth, and all thy 
bones shake : you are serving the Lord with fear 
and trembling, but soon shalt thou come into My 
presence with thanksgiving, and enter into My 
Courts with Praise. Awake, awake, O Zion, put 
on thy beautiful Garments, O Jerusalem ; for the 
day of the Lord' is at hand, that "HE hath visited 
and will redeem his people, I have visited by My 
Spirit ; and now will I redeem by My power. I 
-will no longer bow down to man, but unto My 
Name shall all men bow; and unto Me shall all 
men swear, that they will be taught of Me, from 
the greateft to the leaft. Bring forth your argu- 
ments, O ye ftout-hearted; plead your cause ye 
that boaft of Learning. Where is your God whom 



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you have forsaken ? Where are your Bibles which 
you have neglected ? Have I not said it, and shall 
I not do it? Shall men set all my Councils at 
nought, and say they are wiser than their Maker? 
Shall the Clay contend with the Potter? Shall he 
that is formed say unto him that formed him, what 
doeftThou? I AM GOD, there is none besides 
ME: My Honor I will not give unto an- 
other; neither My Praise to the Sons of men. 
Their Wisdom shall not save them: and their 
Counsels I will bring to nought : for the Wisdom 
of the wise men shall perish : and the Underftand- 
ingsof the prudent shall be hid. But now will I 
gather him that halteth; for I have led them by 
away they know not, and in by-paths they did 
not underftand. But now will I make crooked 
paths ftraight before them: for now will I unveil 
the myflerics unto them : they are the Abrahams, 
and the feed of Abraham, and like Abraham they 
have gone on, inviting men to come forward — 
binding the Cords upon the Altar: but now the 
Cords are broken; My Ifaacs shall be unbound ; 
no longer (hall they invite men : no longer (hall 
they entreat them: — but they (hall ftand valiantly 
in their faith— -and wait till men fhall invite them : 
wait till men fhall entreat them— to let 4hem ftand 
the Trial, that they may see the NEW CREA- 
TED BEING— that they may see the NEW 
COVENANT that is making with man, and 
know that the Mouth of the LORD hath spoken 
it, that they may enter into a NEW COVENANT 
with Him, before they call upon the Rocks and 
Mountains to Cv>ver them — for they (hall find I 
will go forth with Fury, and None (hall flay My 
Hand. I will break down the pride of the Lofty, 
and I will exalt the Spirit of the Meek,- for the 



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Tneek man is bowed down, and the humble man 
is despised in his humility, and for a moment I 
have hid My Face from them. For now will I 
reason together with man ; though their sin% are 
as scarlet, 1*11 make them as wool; though they 
are as Crimson, I'll make them as snow. For 
now will I create all things NEW. For now he 
that hath spoiled and was not spoiled : he that hath 
dealt treacheroufly, 2nd no man dealt treacheroufly 
with him : but now his time is over of dealing 
treacheroufly; and they fhall not deal treacher- 
oufly with him ; ( Isaiah the 33 chapter \) Hear, and 
heaiken, ye sons of men, -who is the man that deals 
treacheroufly with him. Who is the man that 
hath spoiled, and no man sought to spoil him? 
Open Your eyes ye blind : unstop your ears ye 
deaf and discern My Words that I spake unto 
You, that My Wisdom was hid in the great deep, 
and My Paths pad man's finding out. Satan hath 
dealt treacheroufly, and no man hath dealt trea- 
cheroufly with him : satan hath spoiled ; but no 
man hath spoiled him— but now he hath made an 
end of dealing treacheroufly, for his treachery can 
go no further. My Sons and Daughters have 
been bound with Cords of the Altar, as Isaac was 
bound — But now the Ram (hall be caught in the 
thicket, and all My Isaacs fnall be unbound ; and 
now shall they deal treacheroufly with the devil ; 
for now the Lord (hall be gracious unto them. 
They have waited for me every morning, and 
they (hall see the salvation of their God. When 
they pass through the waters, I will be with tht 
and, in the floods, it fhall not drown them : for they 
are created NOW, and not, fror* the beginning; 
even before the day when thou heardest them 
not, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 



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Isaiah 48th chapter, 7th verse. O ye sons of 
men that boast of wisdom, and ye learned, that 
boast of learning, how do you understand my 
Bible ? Have I not said, I should shew you 
New Things, and hidden things, that you 
did not know? Then now let your GOD be 
true, and every man a liar, that says, he can 
find out by learning, what are My hidden 
mysteries in the Bible, when I have concealed 
them from Men and Angels- — Angels could not 
look into the depth of My Decrees — Then where 
are ye vain boasting men, whose Breath is in 
your nostrils and whom I pronounced dead to 
knowledge? Shall I come and contend w r ith men 
and devils, with the Bible I cannot clear? Let 
the wise men contend with the wise men — and 
let them contend wdth a Fool that is brayed in a 
Mortar, and see if he will not contain his Folly, 
till I can make my Bible as plain before him, 
that a T?ool, though a way-faring man may not 
err therin. Where is the man that by searching 
can find out his GOD ? Who can find out the 
ALMIGHTY to perfection? Shall I qome in 
power, and not come in honor ? How did satan 
upbraid ME concerning Job ? How did satan 
upbraid me in the flesh, when 'he said I should 
cast myself down from the Temple; for "it is 
written I should give My Angels Charge con- 
cerning Him."? Then how shall I contend with 
satan? — To be a God of Confusion, and not of 
order ? Have not Kings order in their Wars ? 
Do they not produce their cause before they 
break out in a War, that they may shew a just 
cause for it? Or, how would the enemy upbraid 
them, and say, that tl0y had dealt treacherously 
with them ? They were not spoiling, but man 



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wished to spoil them. Then how can a King 
appear hi such a War? Would not his Enemies 
dispise him, when he could shew no just cause 
for what he had done ? Would not his Subjects 
be ready to forsake him, and say, that he had 
called them out to battle against an enemy which 
hud not offended them ? Where was their love 
and courage to fight for their King, whom they 
found all the Fault in, and saw nope in the enemy 
they were going to war against, but their lives 
were slaughtered for nought? Judge the cause 
ye learned ; open your eyes, ye prudent, and see 
that I cannot cast down your adversary, the de- 
vil, that is as a roaring Lion seeking whom he 
may devour. (But how could I keep him from 
his prey, before I had made the Partition Wall 
strong against him ?•) — Before I had proved My 
cause to he just ; that I had said unto him, as 
unto the proud waves of the Sea, "hitherto shalt 
thou go, and no further." Then as a KING I 
can contain My honor^ I sat bounds for man in 
the Creation, and thou Temptest man to break 
them. — And now I have sat bounds for thee, the 
same. Now see the Creation stand before thee 
dead to knowledge, as I had pronounced them. 
See the Woman I created for man's. goo$ stand 

before me in perfect obedience. Tuesday 19, 

of June, here ends the seventh day. 

Joanna was now too weak, faint, and trembling 
to stay up longer. She could taste nothing, for 
supper but a small piece of tart: her appetite is 
quite gone from tea, and she can drink nothing but 
camomile tea. She was often sick as death, on 
Tuesday; bringing up water. The Tuesday night 
she awoke at midnight, full of the strength of 
the power of the Lord, in her pleading all his 



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sufferings for man, and all the mockery that he 
bore for man. Townley and Underwood slept 
in the next room. Underwood awoke; and heard 
Joanna very loud, talking and thumping the bed. 
She called Townley, and then went directly into 
her room, and Townley followed as quick as she 
could, and found her full of the spirit of the 
Lord: it continued till one o'clock, expressing the 
agonies which he bore for man, and the shameful re- 
proach he had been treated with by man. The names 
they had called him, were then repeated by her; 
and so she said the mid-ni^ht hour would break 
for man, w^ien HE came in fury to his enemies— 
in Love to his friends- The heavenly words 
flowed too fast to be penned, or to~be recollected, 
all of them: but she said, " Tell My disciples, 
" the women visited me first; and here the w r o- 
" men appear. Mary, do not weep; rejoice iri 
<c in the God of your salvation; enter into the 
"joy of your Lord: I will call My Sons and 
" Daughters from afar; I will enlarge my borders: 
" I will strengthen my stakes; I will break out 
" upoo the Right, and on the Left: ALL NA- 
TIONS shall drink the cup of My Fury/'— , 
Repeating these words, she said, she felt full of 
Power and Strength of the Lord. You mV friends 
have nought to fear; but England, Oh! England 
how have you slighted my warnings? How nav^e 
you despised my Invitations? How have you set 
at nought all my Counsels? But turn unto ME, 
and I will turn unto You, This is the shadow 
of the mid-night hour ? for in that manner HE 
will break with power and fury upon His Ene- 
mies, and set all their mockery before them. 
Tremble, ye Jews— c< Mourn, ye Gentiles; for the 

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day of the Lord is at hand: — the day of the 
Lord is nigh at hand." 

" For so the midnight hour will burst for all, 
And men and devils tremble at the call. 
For, now, the mystery I'll explain to thee— 
I brought then on the War for men to see : 
And then I left thee at that very time, 
And made the weak; and weak they all will find 
The trembling Nations to before me stand ; 
When 1 do come to conquer Sea and Land: 
I'll lay before them all that I did bear; 
I'll make the Jews to tremble, and to fear; 
For all their mock'ry I will then turn back, 
And they shall know the *vay they ail did mocks 
Because my hand shall not be shorten'd then; 
I'll conquer devils, and I'll plead with men: 
For in the Vallies now Til bring them low, 
And weak as thee, the Nations all shall know 
They shall in weakness, and in trembling stand ; 
But mark the Spirit — and thy strength command- 
How full of Strength that hour thou didst appear, 
No Men or devils, thou that time coulds't fear 
Then here's the warning to My Brethren dear, 
That by the Woman I so bid them send, 
To My Disciples to tell them in the end, 
They'll find My Spirit so strong in them to burst-*- 
For hell I'll conquer ; and I have conquer'd First, 
To build a Wall I told you for the war ; 
I know the roaring Lion does appear 
Against My Friends, that wish My Kingdom here— 
Therefore THE WALL I made it BY THE SEAL 
Against the devil, now for to prevail 
Against his fury, I shall now go on: 
Because My Wall he now is breaking down. 
Then here's A WAR 1 tell you all IS JUST; 
For I shall conquer as I told you first. 
And now My Warriors let them to go on, 
Tho' weak in nature, but they'll find ME strong- 
Strong to deliver I shall now appear, 
And strong to conquer you shall find ME here. 
And now my foes I'll make them to comply, 
And they shall know the midnight hour draws nigh. 
And now the mystery I shall here explain, 
It is to bring the likeness of thy dream, 



ar, \ 



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That I did shew thee then in ninety-two; 
When all the Evil Fruit before thy view, 
I said 'twas fallen: black the veil within, 
Then to thy view a room was surely seen 
Where was a bed, and did thy GOD appear, 
Who rose and told thee, He was waken'd there; 
And thou didst stand His Answers for to hear, 
Aud now, My Sisters, you the Likeness see, 
How from the Bed My Spirit doth appear, 
To warn you all, th** Fruit is fallen here. 
And now in ranks the good Fruit they may stand;, 
'Tib but as trees things have been seen by man: 
Because the mysteries you did ne'er discern, 
The way or manner I to you did warn; 
And all as water you have *?urely been; 
To think your God would always thus contend 
With Dust and Ashes/ if they'd not comply 
Unto thy words, [ now will answer here, 
I made thee ill, the every truth to clear; 
That from the bed I do reveal My will, 
And now the stubborn hearts of men I'll chill. 
And now the cause in hand I'll surely take, - 
And all the fabric of the earth I'll shake: 
And all the strong men I'll bring weak as thee, 
And then their boasting let them for to see- 
How by their conduct they insult their God; 
Then now unto the Kings I shall allude— 
Could I with Satan now in rage begin? 
1 o kindle war with such vain, ignorant men? 
Then, like the King that I did name before, 
I telLyou all, I must come IN THIS WAR; 
For meu against Me surely now they're found, 
Then-riw can Satan tremble at My sound 
Without a friend My Honor to support? 
I tell you plain y6u do My Honor hurt; 
Weak as this woman they do now appear: 
So weak are men in judgment, I see clear— *• 
And no more strength have they now got to stand, 
Than thou hast got to conquer sea and land, 
Without My power for to carry thee through— 
Thy trembling nature thou dost feel and know; 
Because thy strength and appetite is gone, 
And so [tell thee are the sons of men :— 
Their strength of wisdom it shall all fall down, 
As on the bed thou'rt now in weakness found : 



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And all their appetites shall go the same. 

Unless the GOOD FRUIT do their hearts inflame-- 

And then, 1 say, Pll raise them up again. 

If for the good fruit they do but complain; 

And list'ning wait, " MY STILL VOICE FOR 

TO HEAR,". 
I'll give them strength, and raise them up once moret 
Because I tell thee 1 shall raise thee up;— 
Thou need'st not fear— -thoui't hear My voice and hope, 
That greater wonders now [ shall go through ;— 
And greater Mysteries bring before thy view. 
And from thy Father I shall now appear ; 
?Tis but the Owls that did thee frighten here : 
Because their fruit it surely no\v must fall, 
^Twas but a shadow thou didst hear of hell/* 

The meaning of this is, when J w$,s laid on 
the fltoor the seventh day, the hprror$ of satan 
came in upon me, and told me if I would not 
give up my confidence in Christ I should see 
the mid-night iiouf to burst upon me with his 
coming in with all his hellish Host, for he had got 
them at the door. I told him I knew the Lord 
wouid not let them come in with hint* The de- 
vil led me^ and said, I was to 

him. L saia yes,, but before tw r - Wo* 

men, and he was ever a c^ :oward 

he wanted to appear. But I knew tap Mercies 
of GOD would not let him appear ; and so I got 
rid of him as before-mentioned. But this morn- 
ing at nine o'clock I was just got into a Dose, I 
felt him come upon me almost to stifle me: but 
I thpught to myself, if I must die in these ago- 
nies, I have done the Will of the Lord, and I 
feel a happy and peaceable Conscience. I be- 
gan to pray that the Lord would deliver me, 
and I groaned aloud, and he left me, as Townley 
and Underwood entered my Room, which I was 1 
glad to see— and I asked them why they did not 



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come sooner, as they must have heard me groan ; 
but they said they did not, till just before they 
opened the door, though they came at nine 
o'clock as they were ordered, for they were fqr~ 
bid coming before. 



u — - Now, Joanna, thee FU answer. 

As the Fable doth appear ; 

Now i tell thee, like thy Father, 

'Twas the Owls that frighten'd there: 

And Owls they be, they all shall see, 

And out fhey all shall fly ; 

And so the fruit they shall let fall, 

I'll burst the light to thee. 

The clouds I'll break, for now I speak 

A God IN POWER Divine: 

And thou shah see what frighten* d thee. 

And know it at that time 

When thou'st come home, before my throng 

Then every thing thou'lt know; 

The way the shadows did deceive, 

And thou wert frighten' d so. 

But know no harm did thee alarm, 

And none to thee shall come — 

Could satan be such ignorant fool 

To think I'd e'er let him 

Approach thee here? in person appear* 

When all [ have fbibad ? 

bio men, nor devils, iq appear 

Before thee to proceed ; 

But well I know his rage is so. 

Such coward he would come; 

If i his chain should e'er let go, 

Then hell should be his doom ; 

Is ever to free from misery, 

If he that way couid break; 

But he shall find there's power in ME,--f> 

Thy father now do speak — 

And do not blame, nor will I sharn$ 

Thy weakness at that ti?ne 

When thou dost fear; / tell the* her<» 

|iisfootspeps close belind. 



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Then fear no more, for now the doors 

Are open'd wide for all ; 

And now the Clouds Til surely burst, 

And down the Fruit shall fall ; 

That in his mouth he now have got, 

The doors are open'd wide 

And every Gate / will unlock, 

To shew the jaithjvl Bride. 

Kow I'll go on from every man, 

And Noah they must see: 

How he feje<jt'd thy every hand, 

When so pro vok'd by thee— 

Then there the man— the Name doth stand 

To make my .Bible clear ; 

And let the Learned all command, 

And tell how't happened here ; 

That this should come to make it strong, 

So perfect like «> j word—* 

And from my bible I'll go on. 

And prove a $foah's flood 

"Will be in man ;'■' their fears will come 

Like Noah's heart, and thine — 

And then their Tears to Joy shall turn, 

I say — to Joys Divine, — 

As 'tis with thee the end will be, . 

Where Love do make thee smart, 

There's neither one, in misery ;•— 

For know, a Noah's heart 

Inflam'd again ; his heart did come, 

As it was at the First ; 

Thou heard'st him say he lov'd her name, 

And so the end shall burst, 

To every one that now do come 

In perfect love to ME: 

They 11 find My Name to be the same, 

A Noah's love they'll see, 

Is not connVd in heart and mind— 

lie never could loye more ; 

As he at first scem'd then inclined ;— 

And here's another door 

1 shall unlock, and mark the stroke, 

The words were spok'n by thee; 

When thou his heart had surely got, 

His Anne thou then dicl'st see ; 

And told him then, His wife was come, 

The woman he should have. 



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Bnt mark how he did her despise, 

And said he'd never give 

His hand to she, 'twas known to thee, 

B u t y et i t so d i d 4ti r n ; 

That afterwards his love was there, 

The same for her did burn. 

So now to all, it so will fall, 

Like Noah's love and thine; 

That do believe this every call, 

Is from your God Diving, 

But if too late the door be shut, 

Like lligsby to appear ; 

She's gone, she's gone, now / am* come, 

And cannot enter here ; 

Because my ways she did despise 

It was well known to me: 

The woman he had slain before, 

The truth they all must see. 

For thou'st kept back the fatal stroke, 

That made thee hate the Man . — 

The poison he had bought before, 

And gave it to her hand — 

And so she did die, was then their cry, 

By hiscur'st hand betray'd ; 

Therefore no devil thou didst say, 

Should ever be thy head. 

Wedded to sin, the man had been, 

A child of hell become — - 

And now the truth thou must declare, 

And tell the Woman's doom — 

How she with child, by him beguil'd, 

And then the shame to Miss ; 

He bought the poison then for her, 

But / shall answer this 

Savine you know is an herb doth grow 

And there the poison laid ; 

He said the Child's life it would take 

And there she was betray'd ; 

Because her own, he told her then, 

Her life 't could never hurt ; 

'Twas but the Child that would be slain, 

Her honor to support. 

So here's the man like satan came, 

the Woman to betray ; 

And afterwards thy Lover came 

Satan hath act'd that way ; 



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For close to ihec he oft does flee* 

By every art appear— — - 

-And in thy writings all may see 

Profess'd thy lover there ; 

Till rage in thee, the same to be, 

As from the former place — 

Now mark the man how he does stand, 

An artful foe to btrfii , — 

First to betray, and then to say, 

Her honor he'd secure ; 

He laid his poisonous darts that way, 

And made her murder sure. 

And now to thee the same he'd flee, 

If he thy hand could gain, 

The Children all dead born must be, 

The Mother must be slain ; 

If Fd not one in love too strong, 

That hat'th I&y rival foe ; 

And sonn hell see the woman's gone, 

Where he can never go — 

Then he'll appear, / am foiPd here, 

/ never shall her see ; 

By any arts for to ensnare, 

She's gone, She's gone from me. 

And for my love he now may prove 

She hath disgraced the whole ; 

My honor now is gone that way, 

Oh ! Rigsby's passions fall ! 

If he did see the the lines from thee,, 

How him thou hast disgrae'd ; 

He'd curse the ray he came to thee, 

Thy hand for to embrace: 

ConeeaPd before did all appear, 

And vengeance / did miss; 

But now my guilt doth all appear; 

What woman brought round this? 

Is it from one where / did come 

Jn love and passions burn ; 

And was the malice in her heart, 

To think of what />d done ? 

Could she not bear, my guilt was there, 

Her Sex for to betray ? 

/ knew her hatred did appear ; 

But did not know that way, 

She so did hate, in rage so great 



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My face she would not see ; 

But as a man can / now stand 

To turn my rage on she ? 

jSo ! conscience here must now appear, 

Tis Heaven has me hetra)'d ; 

My conscious guilt J cannot bear* 

For now 'tis o'er my head. 

Conceal'd so long by what /'d done, 

Z thought it all would die ; 

But now the vengeance it is come, 

Will be the Sinner's cry. — 

—Then now let hell the same to swell, 

And cry he's guilty here ; 

My murder was concealed so long, 

The wa\ I did appear, 

In arts at first / so did burst, 

The Mother and the Child ;■— * 

I both did kill by arts from hell ;— 

And then thought to beguile 

The bride the same to her J came 

By arts and passions strong ; 

And every way / then did try, 

To hold her by the hand ; 

But't would not do, /well do know, 

For all my arts did miss — 

P\\ bring the person to my view, 

For so I'll bring round this.— — 

The Child at first, by arts that burst, 

He surely was struck dead — 

And now the same, behold the name. 

The Woman so is led ; 

For dead to all, now in this Call 

He hath the Woman slain, 

And then he thought to conquer all, 

And gain the heart of thine. 

But there in vain he surely came, 

His deeds do now appear; 

In words from hell, how hedid swell, 

AsRigsby s arts did there ! 

So now the two before their view, 

In print their deeds are seen ; 

Thy Fathers Words bring to thy view, 

And blot them out again ; 

Because that there, they must appear, 

As men unlik'd by thee ; 

A% neither one thy heart can share-* 

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/is ALL gave up to ME. 
And now I'll come in words so strong ; 
Thy Father said before 
His former sins to him were come, 
When thy grief did appear; 
How many womens' hearts he'd broke? 
.■Ind /may say the same ! 
Because in love for hinrthey drbpp'd ; — 
The martyrs did appear 
Then in the flames, for ME they came, 
It was for love they stood — 
And 'tis for love. / now shall prove, 
All trnS /now allude ; 
Because that here thou dost appear 
A suffering Child for ME— 
Awd now the past / mean to clear, 
Thy Father's passion see- 
Flow all was phic'd when he did burst 
In grief he could nor bear ; 
Jlis former sins he said were plac'd, 
Av\d then his heart did tear, 
To think that one his Child's become 
To feel the fatal smart ; 
What he before by love had done, 
And broke the Womens' hearts,— 
Then now my sins where said by him, 
To my remembrance come; 
And now the same, I say to men, 
My Bib!e yen discern ; 
The guilt of All on me did/alt, 
They plac'd the sin there first ; 
And so my Lovers I see all, 
In sufferings have been cast. 
Now all together you must brincr, 
And place before your view ; 
And then thy Father's Love they HI see 
The Likeness to be true — 
That I the same in Love AM come 
To see what Guilt I bore; 
It was to free the FALL of men 
I did THAT WAY appear ; 
And so to man I then did come, 
My Lovers then were cast ; — 
In broken hearts, they died for ME — » 
Or, cruel torments burst. 
All this for ME, I plainly see 



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It had been done before ; 

And with thy Fat her 't will agree; 

For no man can appear, 

7b prove My Bible so don't stand, 

Without the Marriage here/ ; 

(Signed) 

JANE TOWNLEY, 

To the Same, 

Thursday Afternoon, June 2i, 1804, 

* 

Reverend Sir, 

As soon as we had finished our 
Letters for one Post to send to Mr Sharp in Lon-? 
don, the day being ordered by the Spirit for us 
to do so; the following day we are ordered to 
take up our pens to write to you : so that you can- 
not have a clear and regular account, as you have 
had already, nor Mr. Sharp either — for, the true 
knowledge is concealed from you Both before the 
Books are out of the Press: and just so stands all 
mankind— that know not the way "He treadeth 
the wine-press of his Father's wrath: nor, what 
vengeance was in His Heat;— no more than you 
know what letters are sent to Mr. Sharp; or 
Mr. Sharp know the letters that are now sent to 
you; so you must draw your own judgments, as 
you can, before you see both the hooks together, and 
the Forbidden Fruit is placed before you ; for you 
must not write one Communication of mine to 
Mr. Sharp, but you may write any to Leeds. 

Joanna has been confined to her Bed ever since 
Tuesday night, but though the Lord hath cast 
her down, He has promised to raise her up ; but 
she is able to set up in her bed, and deliver to us 



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the words of The Lord, that are spoken -to her. 
But she fee's the a<nger of the Lord is greatly 
kindled, and soon they will see Him break forth 
in fury ; for they have refused the promise, that was 
made to man in Creation ; and they have refused 
the promises that were la>t msde to man in their 
Redemption. But now I shall put all things 
plain before you, and I wdl mnke them as naked 
as thou art in thy Bed, and they shall find they 
have no more wisdom, no more understanding, 
no more knowledge of My Word, than thou hast 
clothing upon thee — which from the heat of thy 
Fever thou hast none, having thrown the Bed- 
clothes from thee. And so shall the heat of My 
Fury make them lay down in the dust, as weak 
as thou art: — and I will strip them of all their 
Clothing — I will strip them of all their Wisdom; 
for I am as sick of their Wisdom, as thou hast been 
of thy Tea; and I will spue them out of my mouth, 
as thou hast spued out thy Tea — and I will give 
them Bitters to drink, as thou art drinking now. — $ 
To have this be understood, the agitation of the 
Spirit Joanna has been in the last seven days, has 
brought her weak, and faipt, and so sick, that she 
cannot drink her Tea, but brings it up again, and is 
obliged to drink Camonjile Tea, which she can- 
not bear. For I am sick of their Wisdom, and I 
shall make them sick of Mine : for the Cup of 
My Fury is kindled against them, and My heart 
is hot within Me : they shall feel the Hand of 
the Lord heavy upon them, as heavy as thou feel- 
est My Hand, when thou groanest under it, and 
said, thou shoulds't die, and prayed to be deli- 
vered from the power of the devil, for at that 
tin}? thou so judged ME. 



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— M And now the nation shall the Likeness see — 

Because at first thou felt's t the Hand of God, 

So heavy on thee pressing with such Load; 

That thou said'st satan surely must be there; 

Thou felt'st the hand under thy neck appear'd, 

And then thy body it was pressed so, 

That thou wast dying, thou didst judge, I know;—- 

But rest and peace within thee thou didst find, 

And now Til perfect tell My every mind — 

It was the Parables in all "to clear, 

That in like manner i did press thee there; 

To prove the Likeness now in all was true, 

The rage of hell that night before 1 knew 

Was close upon thee; thou didst feel his power, 

And then thou know'st 1 told thee of an houi, 

That thou should'st wake to see the Lord appear; ^ 

And much like Osmyn I did then come there, > 

And think what Agonies that she did bear; / 

When Osmyn held her by the trembling hand, 

And shew'd the picture; judge how she must stand, 

With heart oppress'd, and much more grief than thine; 

Because that sweetness in thy heart thou'st find; 

And all that' sweetness thou shalt find in ME— 

Conscience at peace, and all thy guilt I'll free; 

Because thy weakness I will never blame — 

Thy doubts and fears shall only put to shame. 

The boasted Confidence that is in man ; 

When they'd no footing in the least to stand,- — 

If that My Bible they did e'er discern; 

Their jealousy, like thine, must them alarm: 

And say, they fear THE WOMAN may BE TRUE; 

And bring our Bibles plain before our view. 

For, if the second Adam must appear, 

We know the Lamb's wife, she is mention'd there; 

She must be ready for to stand the Bride, 

And now avenge the Cause where first it laid ; 

And see the vengeance that was in My heart, 

To have the woman to avenge her dart 

Upon the serpent, that did bruise My hee! : 

Because by arts he've surely stung the whole — • 

And now the enmity in man do fall ; 



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Against the woman's seed they now are come; 
But from thy lovers I shall here go on— 
Remember him that told thee of his store, 
He'd gold enough for both, he'd want no more — 
Then now on John I "surely here will lean, 
A shadow deep, that I shall now explain ;— < 
He wished to wed before the time was up; 
But know thou told'st him so it would not drop — ?', 
And now 1 tell thee thou hast wish'd the same. 
To wish the marriage ere the time was come. 
But know I told thee this could never be ; 
In My appointed time the Truth thou' It see; 
And now I tell thee My appointed time 
Is for the present, every soul shall find; 
Or else the ending they'll all find like John — 
The part the journey he. with thee did come, 
And then the journey he did take no more;— 
Because that night I bolt'd the every door :— 
When thou before My Throne did'st so complain, 
And wtsb'd an interest in my heart to gain— • 
Then know the answer that I then gave thee; 
That a new heart in thee should surely be; 
Ami on it there I'd build my every law. 
And put My Spirit there the fools shall know, 
That by a woman thas 'twas never done : 
Then the Creation by her you must plan, 
If you do place it to a Woman here ; 
Or to the devil now, you Fools take care— 
For now My Folly shall begin to break, 
And from the Mid-night hour My wisdom speak- 
But from the Mid-night hour I'll first appear, 
"When Peter West thy heart did so ensnare ; 
And told thee then how deeply he did love, 
And thou the shadow in thy heart did prove, 
And know at Mid-night that you two did part.-— 
And know at Mid-night thou didst fpel the dart, 
That was of Love to kindle in thy breast, 
And the war within thy heart did burst : 
Thy foolish heart was wandering then from Me, 
Let it not wander was the prayer of thee ; 
Unless thy Husband I did him design, 
And from thyself thou then did'st fix the time, 



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That I before had kindled in thy breast; 
And so My Peter's every one was cast : 
Because that Peter be did ME deny, 
And so My bricle have turn'd it back that way 
For all the Peter's she denied the same — 

Men fled from Me and thou hast fled the same, 

To turn it back that way by every man — 
For mark, when Peter did again return, 
That had deny'd, as I had fix'd the mark, 
And know the time, and bring ihe every spark 
That was of love, kindl'd again in he ; 
But then thy answer let them all to see— * 

" If he was better to them he might go, 

Thou would never waste his love, thou told'st him so, 

To hurt himself, and back to thee to come, 

If he was great ; thou told'st him thou wast gr#nd" 

And now I tell them, grand 3 will appear ; 

And all My boasting Peters tell them here 

Urito the skies they've swcll'd their wisdom high — 

And now I tell them they'll fall back this way ; 

Because the upright man i.hou can'st not find, 

For to seek out their SAVIOUR's heart and mind; 

Unless the Noahs they do all appear, 

And say we'll turn and try her heart once more;— 

B e fo re by N oah s u re the thi n g was don e — 

I tell them plain thy History must go on ■;— 

In every truth thy History must appear; 

Because the Likeness I'll in all compare, 

You know at first how that you two did part, 

When Jealousy had wound'd thy tender jkcaFt," 



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Continuation of Joanna's History. 

' " As I am called to write the particulars, that, 
all may be explained, I shall mention what I have 
omitted before we parted for good. There was a 
young woman in Sidinputh, Captain Wickers? 
daughter, who was almost mad about Noab ' JBishcy 



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and would follow him wherever be went; whets 
lie did go to Sidmouth Town, one Sundav, she 
fol lowed him upon thee beach, and followed him 
part of the way home, and he stood talking with 
her. A friend of mine passed them by, and came 
and told me of it. This fired my soul with jea- 
lousy: and, as soon as I saw him enter the yard, 
I went immediately up stairs. He came and en- 
quired of my sister for me. She told him I was 
gone up stairs, because I refused to see him; for, 
that I had desired her to tell him, that where he 
had been already, he might go again, along with 
Fanny Wickers. He declared to my sister, he 
could not bear her; and, though she followed him, 
he hated her, and believed her a very bad, loose 
girl ; but, as she had followed him, he was obliged 
to stop and speak with her: but this excuse did 
not do for me. My heart burned with jealousy : 
and, in my passion, I said, I would not come down 
for the night ; neither did I the next day. I 
thought, if what he said was real, he would come 
as usual, when I was milking, as he knew I could 
not shun him then; but, to my astonishment, he 
did not come: tfyis fired my heart with indignation, 
for I thought my jealousy was without a cause. 
The next day, I went to my father's at Getsham, 
and Noah came and pleaded his cause again with 
my Sister, who told him I was more confirmed in 
my opinion than ever; and she was gone to Get- 
sham to my Father's. Be said, well then I will 
soon be after her, for I will go and and see her, 
and convince her, that I hate Fanny Wichers. My 
Sister told him he need not go t) Getsham to see 
me, for I should return again the latter end of the 
week. He said, then he would wait till my return. 
I returned home on the Saturday night, but as soon 



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as he came into the house on the Sunday* I 
fled from him as before ; but in the evening 
when I went to milking I saw him standing at 
the Orchard Gate, as he knew I could go no 
other way; he h#d an halter in his hand, and 
said, he had been down to turn the Sheep out 
of the Orchard, and put in the Colt, and he 
would not let me go till he had convinced me 
of his dislike to Fanny Wickers, and that I was 
the only Woman in the World that he loved. 
I told him, if what he said was true, he would 
have come on the Monday night to convince me 
of the Truth, and not have staid away, as he did; 
for I supposed he was with her then. He assured 
me to the contrary; for his father had sent him in 
the morning all over Bulverton Hill to find the 
colts, and he had come round two or three times 
to my brother's grounds, in hopes of seeing me 
watering the bullocks, whiclr I very often used to 
do at noon, as there was no water in the field; 
but he had missed the time that I came, and made 
it so late before he could find his horses, that he 
clid not return home till after night; and to prove 
the truth of what he said, he could bring his bro- 
ther Nathaniel, William Prince, Richard Isaac > 
and many others, to testify the truth of what he 
said; and his brother, and William Prince, did 
testify the truth : so I gave up all my jealousy in 
this matter, before it came to be alarmed another 
way, by people's saying, that he would break my 
heart in. a twelve-month if I had him, 'which 
brought the sorrows upon me, as is mentioned hi 
my history : but, as all particulars must be explain- 
ed, I shall notice one further. His wife that is 
now, and I, were intimately acquainted : and, one 
Sunday, when she came into the house, I told him 



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that she should be his wife. In a contemptuous 
manner, he said, he did not like her: but, years 
after, when he courted her, I was in company with 
him at a reaping -harvest, and there was a woman 
there that said her name was Anne, He said, 
Oi,Aniie! I love the name of Anne — and now I 
mav say the same of my dear SAVIOUR, that I 
have been so often jealous of, fearing HE would 
let the gates of hell prevail against. me; but 
now I know none can pluck me out of- His Hand 
and now I will say, with David, " if I' am 
vile, I will still be viler," and prove the truth 
that the Bible is clear, and the truth of His words 
are true to me. 



-— — >" Though I'm unworthy, and of merit none 

I see the merit in my Saviour's groans. 

I see the merit doth in Him appear, 

Unworthy I his hand or heart to share; 

Because my jealousy so wrong have been, 

As 'twas by Noah now to me is seen. 

And all my passions open now anew, 

I see my SAVIOUR's words in all are true; 

That of my jealousy I may complain, 

To let my heart be so enrag'd by men. 

It is the Harlots that have me provok'd ; 

It is the Harlots that did cause the stroke. 

To cause the jealousy by my weak hand, 

When I did sign the folly of a man, 

That said from hell the writings did appear, 

And by his wisdom he'd destroy them there. 

But by his wisdom this he could not do ; 

He's just like Fann the Harlot in my view; 

Because a Harlot she by man was plac'd, 

For so they said her roving heart did burst 

To every man ,* that she thought she could gain: 

And now the empty world I see as plain, 

That they are roving after pleasures here, 

And every vanity their hearts ensnare. 



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And so my heart they thought to tear that way,' 

Because I knew there came my Jealousy — . 

Because professed Christians stood before, 

And made me judge my Saviour's Lord was there—* 

And that his promises to me Ha would forsake, 

And that' s the way my Jealousy did break ; 

But curst toi mentors now your rage is o'er, 

Your fury can no more from hell appear, 

With all the arts that now are in your view; 

I see my Saviour, and I see him true, 

Doth in this Fable strong to me apptar: 

J see this Likeness— and 1 feel it here. 

And now your fury shall no further go, 

To say ray Lord wiil fill my heart with woe. 

No, him 1 11 trust, and give both heart and hand; 

I see myself doth in this fable stand-— 

I see my Lord in Noah to appear; 

Not all the arts of hell shall now appear, 

To make me ever grieve my Dying Lord : 

I'll trust His honor, and Til trust his word— 

For all my passions they are open here, 

Much stronger for my Saviour to appear, 

Than ere in youth they did appear for man ; 

I'd sooner die, than now give up my hand 

To any wretch, that shall against Him speak-— 

No, No, my heart in sunder you may break, fl 

To kill my honor, and despise my fame; 

To say thy Maker thou doth boldly name, 

To be my husband, and the Lord of hosts, 

1 tell you plain in Noah it is placd: 

Because the shadow there is in the man; 

But in my youth 1 was forsaken then, 

Grieved in spirit I did then appear, 

Worse than a widow's was my sorrows there—* 

And 'twas pretended Friends brought on that woe, 

And now pretended Friends the same I know, 

Within my heart these daggers all would place; 

And the last error fata' ler than the first — 

Then now, ye cursed tyrants! look and see, 

If you once nao^e can break the heart of me; 

Just like the devils you must all appear, 

And worse than serpents for to sting me here. 



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But now I tell you, sooner I will die, 

Than e'er my God and Saviour to deny: 

Because so plain He'th brought all to my view, 

And I have witnesses to prove it true — 

That 'twas by arts my Jealousy did go, 

Because the Harlots they have stood, before, 

And made me judge my Saviour's Love was there* 

But from the Fable now I plainly see, 

They stood beiore but had no heart of He, 

To make him change His Bible for to turn, 

I see the way the Harlots all become 

To follow after, and to stand before; 

And that s the way my Jealousy was there* 

And so his absence 1 one time did s?ee, 

When hell by arts provok'd my Jealousy, 

And then my Lord not hasty to return, 

I thought my writings every one to burn. 

But then my blessed SAVIOUR did come round, 

He proved the Truth that HE was in the sound, 

And shew'd the way my Jealousy did come, 

The arts of Satan unto me made known ; 

And by HIS TRUTH, I did believe his word,— 

And by HIS TRUTH I'll now stand by my LORD, 

Ten thousands deaths by man I'd sooner die, 

Than ere my blessed SAVIOUR now deny. 

No, No, the shadow it is gone before, 

But of the substance I will now take care, 

And trust the honor of my SAVIOUR dear; 

Tho' I am unworthy— HE is worthy found, 

Unto His Cross my hand and heart is bounjd ; 

And I will sooner die beneath His Feet 

Than ere give up His Love that is so great, 

To be aveng'd of all, our rival foe 

That strong in satan now I know do go — 

And in the Harlots he do now appear 

To stand before them that he may ensnare. 

And kindle Jealousy again to burst; 

But now too late the happy die is cast : 

for me as plain to see my SAVIOUR 's namej 

As I saw Noah's when he humbly came, 

To place the truth of all before my view; 

And shall my LORD so humbly now pursue* 



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Then well the Manger HE may call to mind, 
How humbly first HE came unto mankind, 
And how the mock of fools HE then did bear; 
And now the same they're pointing every spear, 
To crucify my dying LORD again ; 
Weigh every shadow, and you'll see it plain— 
Because the substance now I plain do see, 
The second time you'd murder HIM and me: 
As Eve BV ar,ts satan did murder first, 
And so by arts the Cross of Christ was plac'd—-* ' 
And so by arts he'd place it all again ; 
Christ and the Woman. once more to be slain, — 
The second time the sword go through her soul, 
This is the way I know you'd murder all — 
But now I tell you Christ shall murder me; . 
Before my hand and heart I'll ever give 
"To any living, but my LORD alone; 
I'd sooner die and come before His throne; 
And there my trial I'd begin to plead, 
And ask HIM how this way I'd been misled—- 
His Words and Bible all for to believe, 
I'd ask HIM how satan could so deceive; 
I'd ask the devil how he could appear 
In Christ's form, my heart for to ensnare, 
And say, that by it I should conquer hell, 
Then now the truth for once he sure must tell; 
Because against himself he now must stand, 
To say he is a devil in all lands ; 
And in the hearts of all men he does go. 
Nothing but ruin he do see and know; 
While he hath power for to rule and reign, 
Then sure the self-accuser must be slain* 
Because if 1 should murder now a man, 
And boldly say I had the murder done; 
And tell the way I did to all contrive — 
J ask what law would let me then to live — 
If I plead guilty; man must plead the same — - 
And so from hell, as you do say, it came; 
from his own words he now is guilty cast; 
And I'm the witness will against him burst.— 
But if from heaven you say is now the sound, 
Then sure your Conquering SAVIOUR will be found; 



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As HE bath said to conquer earth and hell, 

And make the rebel in his den to dwell; 

That he may never vex the earth no more, 

Until the thousand years are named be o'er-*- 

And now Joanna I have spoke in thee, 

The truth of all for thou to hear and see.-*— 

This is the way that thou must plead with man; 

Because thy eyes I've open'd to discern, 

How clear in all the likeness doth agree, v 

And now like Noah I shall answer thee. 

It is the hariots do before me go, 

Profess they love MS, and they hold ME so, 

That I must save them by my dying Ivors'; 

But ne'er avenge it on the serpent's head — ■ 

Therefore their love like Noah I do hate; 

Though they profess to ME, their -love is great^ 

To have MY dying; b' ? ooc! be all in .all: 

And never have my rival foe to fall." 

Here we ended on Thursday night, June 2i T 
1804 — — And then a Letter was received from 
Exeteryfhat they had sent a Letter to Mr. Pome- 
roy, which he returned back without answering 
a word. This set ail Joanna's heart on fire ; the 
agonies she felt, no tongue can express— she saw 
the fatal ruin he was bringing on himself, and 
called to her rcrtiemhrance a Letter she was or- 
dered to send him; she thinks it was in 1797-— • 

< e And Judas he shall be to me, 

If he do me deny ; 

No comfort in this world he'll have, 

And tiemhle for to die. 

Uc must ho found an empty sound, 

And hollow all within : 

I asked the Bishop how he'd look 

On such deceitful men*" 

Because in his Preaching he professed great Love 
for Christ ; therefore it was said, the Lord would 
try the man, and now he is weighed in the bal- 
ance and found wanting, but knowing it is the 



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devil's arts have deceived him, wounds me to the 
heart in pity for. the man ; but as for the Devil 
I hate, my rage and malice grow more and more 
every day against him; as I receive Letters, 
how believers are daily haunted, for those that 
are longing for CftkrsT and Hife Kingdom, the de- 
vil is ~n-uing witfr a ! l his rage and frity, TthtW 
those that do as a man f said at Leeds, that he 
r T i e the devil a ° r#€rfch*r t s"t ili his heart 
tiiat then he said the devil was at rest with him ; 
butifhedltu i) would plague 

him—and I heard the same man slay, ] >e would 
die to redeem the devil, which made me tremble 
to think -here could be so wretched a being. I 
told him his death would not redeem the devil $ 
for that power was in GOD only—and he would 
find him a cruel devil to him, tho J he professed so 
much love to him, he would not find that love in 
return from him : — but I am miff to say I see his 
likeness in many men; they would sooner bring 
the day of Vengeance on ibemselves, and free the 
deWl nom his just punishmen , than let the devil 
have his due. For they gave him a corner chair 
to set in their hearts, because he may not disturb 
"them. But I will assure them in the end, they 
will find the devil to be like a Gentleman's Gar- 
dener, who courted the Gentleman's Maid, and 
made great professions of love to her, till he had 
brought her with Child and then he ordered her 
one night to come at- mid-night to such a Garden 
at her Master's, and he would meet her there, 
and take her to Church to be married early in 
the morning ; but while the bloody wretch was 
digging the Grave, to bury her when he had mur- 
dered her, the Gentleman was warned by a dream, 
that his Gardener was digging of a Gr&ve, t& 

f George Hey, near Leeds, 



ft 

mtirder his Cook, he told his wife of it, and. said 
he'd go down— -she desired him not, and said it 
was only a dream. He went to sleep and dreamt 
the same again — he then said, he would rise, but 
his Wife persuaded him not to listen to dreams. 
He went to sleep again, and dreamt the same the 
third time ; he then sprung off his bed, and said, 
he'd lay there no longer, till he searched out the 
truth of his dream. He slipped on his Night-gown 
and went down and met his Cook Maid at the 
door, dressed to meet her devilish lover. He 
asked the maid where she was going, she was 
compelled to tell him she was going to meet his 
Gardener to go to Church to be married. He 
told her she should not The poor innocent maid 
burst into tears, and said she must go, for she 
was with Child by him. The Gentleman told 
her, he was only going to murder her, and to 
convince her he w r ould go first to the Garden, 
which he did, and left the poor maid trembling 
in the house. When he came, he found the Gar- 
dener had dug a very deep Grave ; he asked him 
what he was doing ? The wretch answered ma- 
king of a Cucumber-bed. The Gentleman told 
him it Avas the* wrong season of the year to make 
Cucumber-beds — And he knew from the maid 
that told him she was with Child by him, and he 
had appointed her to meet him there, that he had 
designed to murder her, and had dug that for her* 
Grave. The wretch finding that he was betrayed 
fied from his master and left the country. — And 
now I shall insert Joannas dream of last night 
u I dreamt last night, that I was to go to be 
married with my Brother Page that is dead ; my 
Brother-in-law. He first made love to me, and 
then married my Sister, But to this I thought I 



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must go to be married by Proxy, as the Queens 
do. I thought some said, why you must not marry 
with a man, if you are wedded to Christ: I said, 
No, it was but by Proxy; like the Queens; for I 
should never live with the man: but my happi- 
ness would never be completed, before I had gone 
through the Proxy of marriage. I thought some 
cried out, in raptures of joy, and said, now I see 
the whole mystery clear. One strange ge ntlemaa 
cried out, in confusion and raptures of joy, she 
shan't want for money nor a house — she hath many- 
presents sent her, and I will provide a house for 
her. I thought they kept presenting to my view,, 
little things, wrapped up; and, when I opened 
them, there was gold and blue ribbons in them* 
I thought many men seemed bursting with joyr 
but one man in the company looked as if he would 
burst with envy; and said, I donYknow what to 
mike of this woman's marriage, — I believe it's all 
a sham ; while others warmly reproved him. I 
then thought, that myself, with my friends, entered 
a beautiful, large garden; where I saw four crown 
pieces lay upon a stone. I thought I picked them 
up, and gave one to Miss Townley, and one to 
Mrs. Foley; and said, I had found them upon the 
earth: but, as they were covered with dust, I did 
not know whether they were silver or not. I 
thought we began ^to rub the pieces, and I found 
they were not true silver: so I cried to my 
friends, it is not true silver, fling them all down 
in the garden again; which I thought we all did* 
So we pursued our journey together, till we came 
out of the garden; and then I lost my friends, 
I know not how, and I was in a room with two wo- 
men, that were very ill-looking old women. And 
1 thought in derision they said one to the other, 

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have you heard of this mighty woman that is going 
to be married ? I heard theft mockery, and pulled 
my veil over my face, that they might not know 
it was me: but I thought Jealousy alarmed one of 
them, and she went down stairs to call a parcel 
of women more to come up, and prevent my going, 
I thought I looked at the stairs, and saw them full 
of old women, looking like witches^Immediately 
I felt the strength of the Lord enter in me, and I 
flew like a Bird over their heads, and flew out of 
the house. —I thought they turned in con- 
fusion to seek me, and said, where xan she go. f 
that we cannot find her? I thought with myself, 
the Lord will carry me where you cannot find 
me. And I thought I was carried round, from 
place to place; and saw the people as if they 
were bursting with envy at me: but so quick and 
powerful was my flight, that no one could prevent 
me, nor touch me, nor stop my flight, till I came 
to some beautiful place, which I cannot recollect* 
and then I awoke." 

Here, Sir, you are left in a confusion, like Mr„ 
Sharp, sending you dreams and visions with the 
explanation: for the explanation of this dream 
and vision will be sent to Mr. Sharp, and he will 
be puzzled to know what it alludes to, as you may 
be puzzled to know what it meaneth, to go in print 
without an explanation: but the explanation you 
are forbid to know, till the book is printed. But 
Iwish I .could find the Clergy as wise as Mr. Sharp, 
to say his head is now confused, to find out the 
mystery of what I am sending: for he knows 
there must be some pages kept back that ought to 
be sent, to make my writings clear before him, 
for he cannot now understand them. Now, if the 
Clergy were as wise as he is, they would see there 



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were some hidden mysteries in the Bible, that 
they can't find out, to make the Bible clear and 
true; as you will both see by my letters, that you 
cannot make the mysteries cleaV, till both books 
. are brought together, (Signed) 

JANE TOWNLEY. 

From the same to the same. 

r> oj Friday Afternoon, June 22, 1 804. 

The following Communication is given 
to Joanna, in answer to a simple Parable " of a 
Black." The Parable is sent to Mr. Sharp, and 
the explanation is sent to you. 

€t For so My Bible doth appear, 

I tell you simple men ; 

The Parables you've got them here, 

But cannot them explain. 

No more than he the thing could see 

Why thou such things should pen ; 

For in the dark there stands a mark t 

That no one does discern 

Had been up on his father's bulks, 

He said that he could run ; 

Because that there he might appear, 

In strength he thought to stand ; 

But when upon his bed he were, 

He judg'd a coward's hand 

Had slain him then, ye simple men, 

Your Bibles stand the same ; 

I'll bring the mystery to the Land, 

That you may know My Name* 

My Father here cannot appear, 

To strike the rebel dead ; 

No other way His Honor clear, 

But bring it to the bed, 



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Where I did fall ; I tell you all, 

1 hat so 't must surely come : 

For me to strike the rebel dead, 

As satan's arts are known. 

For him I'll place, ye fallen race, 

The Black's father to be; 

And 1 must bring him to the bed, 

That first did murder Mil: 

For 'in the Land, as now you stand, 

The bulk of all tc place; 

By satan's aits you this command, 

That he may run his race, 

To save his life, and end the strife, 

For there his bulk does come — 

And if with him you thus do hold, 

You give him room to run; 

For Twenty here he well may clear, 

My Bible he does see; 

My Honor I can never clear, 

Till to my bed 't must be : 

Because that there, he did appear, 

I say a coward first; 

And now My Honor I can clear, 

To make a coward burst, 

On him the same; ye simple men, 

And strike the rebel dead : 

But from the bulk in all he's plac'd, 

To bring it on your head, 

For man to fall, I tell you all, 

And he to run the same : 

He know'th iMy Honor cannot fall, 

A liar to become — 

And plead with he, in lies to be ; 

A God for to appear— *- 

]SJo ! Twenty Gods he'd quickly free, 

And say no truth was here. 

Then how can 1, that dwell'th on high. 

In lies for to proceed : 

No, all your earthly Gods must die, 

He'd quickly strike them dead ; 

And so he'd run to ME 'twas kflpwn^ 

The bulk in all to places 



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And say 'tis man I must enthrone, 

For where's the truth to burst? 

No woman here did now appear 

A helpmate to mankind ; 

My Bible, you can never clear, 

You earthly Gods must find ; 

Because that here you may appear f 

That number to make good; 

And every one would satan clear. 

You ne'er could strike him dead: 

No, he would run to ME, 'tis known, 

The way he'th run before ; 

The woman he did first enthrone, 

Then how can I appear, 

To say the way he did betray, 

I'd bring it at the last? 

Then 'twas the woman you do say, 

And there the truth shall burst; 

In honor clear I shall appear, 

The "woman all must free; 

And say, if he did Eve ensnare, 

Then now 'tis 1 come to ME — 

I say the same, agiin I'M come, 

The woman to beguile; 

Then there the devil cannot stand, 

And well thou then may'st smile, 

To see a thing so simply done, 

That I shall here explain — 

I'il bring My Bible out to man, 

For that's the bulk I mean. 

The bulk of all from Adam's fall, 

If satan there could stand; 

You earthly Gods he'd conquer all). 

And run by my command; 

Because that here he would appear; , 

And say no truth -was plac'd ; 

I promis'd as a SAVIOUR here, 

The likeness it must burst : — 

God of this world, he sure did c:\ll 

The devil at that time: 

Then how that God could he e'er fall, 

Till Christ an Eve could find, 



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For to obey, as Eve did lay 

Obedient to his will; 

J tell you all, ye earthly Gods, 

You'd keep his footing still ; 

He well does know, and so does go, 

To work in every heart, 

And Cowards he would make of you, 

To take your SAViQUR's part ; 

For Christ to come, and reign the same, 

In power in every land — 

For now I tell you Satan's frame, 

The Bulk in him doth stand— 

That's of Mankind, you all may find, 

And look which way you will, 

The reigning power that is in man, 

Is bound to Satan's will. 

And this he gain'd ye simple men, 

By Woman's simple hand, 

And by that bed he must be slain, 

For there the Type doth stand, 

What he gain'd first, from Woman burst* 

And so he'll now appear! 

He'll place there Witchcraft at the last, 

The Bride they'd murder here: 

She should not come, to Christ be't known* 

By witchcraft would they cry ; 

To have jthe Saviour all their own, 

And death arid hell to die. 

No, we'll keep up our every hope, 

That we had got before ; 

His blood to wash away our stains, 

We do not want e'er more. 

Thus 't will begin in hell to burn, 

The Witches now he'll try ; 

That he hath power for to bewitch, 

And make the Bride to die :— 

Because that here he will appear, 

As he appear'd before ; 

And from the Jews, I this shall dear> 

For so they'll answer here — 

What Blasphemy must be in she, 

Her SAVIOUR to blaspheme ! 

To say in spirit now JIE's come, 

With her to plead like men ; 

For to appear like Noah here^ 

The Hermit in disguise * 



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With all her Lovers to compare* 

Tis time for to chastise — 

If this does go we well do know, 

She'll gain men all her own 

They'll judge the Bible to be true, 

The way that she hath shewn, 

And we no more, than Fools appear, 

Will satan swell their Pride ; 

I know the Witches will appear, 

That way the witchcraft li'th— 

Then from the first I stong shall burst, 

And call the mid-night hour 

And see your Saviour how HE's ptac'd, 

Your pride for to devour — 

My Grandeur here, when I appear, 

To make My Wisdom shine ; 

Would I your mockery ever bore ? 

Had I not known My Mind, 

That at the last a Prince Pd burst 

By Woman's simple hand ! 

Because. that there, I tell you here, 

The devil's power doth stand- — - 

Now I the Last the same do burst, 

The earth for to conmand ; 

I come to do My FATHER'S will, 

And there His Will shall stand : 

The Woman shall your He'pmatebe, 

For now I've gain'd her hand. 

The fruit to pluck now to the root, 

And down the root shall fall ; 

Not all his witchcraft now shall do, 

For I shall conquer hell : 

This very way, now l»do say, 

That I did first design : 

The Woman shall your Helpmate be » 

I'll further tell My Mind :— 

It is not one to ME 'tis known, 

For I'AM a David here ; 

And many Brides are now My own. 

Alike with her to swear: 

But now the First from Saul did bursty 

For there the Bride did come, 

And David's Crown that way was found, 

And Saul's was overthrown. 

So now the Saul, I tell you all, 

Jja Satan he does stand } 



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But now within thou dost begin, 

Thy pondering heart command*— 

Must thou appear the Daughter here 

Of satan just the same 

I tell thee no, it is not so, 

Tho* all from Shadows came. — 

The Shadows first from satan burst, 

Children undei the Fall ; 

Then there the daughter thou must stand 

I now do tell you all : 

Because that there hell did appear, 

A prince of earth to come ; 

And by the Fall, 1 tell you all 

I then pronounced man 

As dead to be in 1 ove to ME, 

Oi knowledge to become ; 

By satan's arts you all may see 

Your Children fornVd by him. 

Then now see clear, the shadow here* 

A Child of his must come ; 

To give their hand to David here, 
And siay their father's throne; 

That did appear in Saul now there, 

And there the shadow see, 

How David's life were then preserv'd^ 

By a Daughter born of he ; 

That is of Saul, I tell you all, 

So David gain'd his Crown ; 

And so I tell you by the Fall, 

You're satan's Children found. 

Fallen from M E in misery, 

By satan's artful hand : 

And from the Shadow all must see, 

How David's Crown must stand.— 

But here within thou dost begin, 

In Jealousy to burst ; 

And from this Fable thou dost see, 

Thou art unequal rd plac'd ; — 

Mot for to Love thou here dost prove, 

For David's heart did go, 

And other women better lov'd, 

Than her thou well dost know. 

So misery and jealousy, 

Have work'd thy passions high — 

And is My Love no more for thee! 

Tho' thou for me' wilt die. 



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Thy love's so great, without deceit, 

In every thing to prove : — 

And shalt thou see that misery, 

To find a David's love 

So cold to thine ! No, I'll resign, 

'Twas but a shadow there ; 

When I at first came to mankind, 

The Brides for to ensnare-*— 

To wed with me I now tell thee, 

And Brides they did become ; 

Because that they do trust in ME, 

That I shall them redeem. 

But now see clear, the mystery there, 

I am a David found, 

The Ark of God in all to clear, 

And bring the mysteries round: 

That I am come to act like him, 

For to uncover all, 

The Brides that I have got before, 

Do now like her appear; — 

What fool say they, must Christ now be 

To come and stoop so low, 

And irj their hearts they Me despise, 

like Saul's, daughter they go.-*- 

But I shall say, like him that day, 

If f vile 1 do appear ; 

Then now much viler I will be, 

And come to Noah here— * 

For like his love Mine now shall prove, 

Thy Jealousy did burst ; 

Like Saul's Daughter for to appear, 

Thou know'st how-it was plac'd ; 

That she despis'd him so unwise, 

And folly she did see, 

For him to dance before the Ark, 

In honor then to Me, 

But viler there he. would appear, 

He told her at that time— 

And now the mysteries I shall clear, 

And bring it to mankind, 

A Daviu here I did appear, 

I told them at the first, 

His Root and Offspring then I were ; 

The morning star to burst — 

6th Chap. 2nd Book of Samuel through* 

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But then see clear My Brides were there, 

Tho' then I wed with Some, 

My Humbleness they could not bear. 

And so despis'd My Name. 

So they did die, I tell thee why, 

No Children did appear, 

Till other Brides were gain'd by Me, 

My every crown to share. 

So first from them, the Jews did come> 

And every one did die ; 

Because My ways they did despise 9 

Too low they all did cry ; 

And now the same they mock My Name 

The Brides that here do come- — 

Tho' at the first My death they plac'd, 

To be the life of them : — 

Then now within thou dost begin, 

The mystery for to see ; 

Children of Saul I tell you all, 

Like Saul's Daughter will be ; 

Tho' I began to thee 'twas kno >vn, 

To place the shadow there ; 

With Saul's Daughter I then did come, 

The likeness to compare; 

And thou within did'st tremble then-* 

And all may tremble too, 

That say My Ways they do despise.* 

Bring all before thy view ; 

For viler there he did appear, 

To tell her he would be ; — 

And viler here, I will appear, 

And that they allshall see ; 

If low at First, I here did burst, 

And in the Manger come ; 

I tell them lower at the Last, 

I shall receive My Crown. 

Humility you all shall see, 

Do highest honor bring, 

And humbly now 1'AM come to thee, 

Thy heart and soul to win. — 

And so to all, I now do call, 

Brothers and Sisters here ; 

My mother too, before My View, 

My Love do so appear ; 

Then surely L who dwell'th on High, 

Do humbly now becomej 



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For to invite My every Bride, 

My Kingdom for to share ; 

Because this way to thee, I say 

My Kingdom 't must appear ; 

It is by Love you all must prove, 

My Kingdom it must come ; 

Arid it is Love the Cause must move, 

The Serpent to condemn ; 

I said at Last MY Love should burst, 

Unto them in the end ; 

When 1 do bring My earthly Crown 

MY Love to man must bend : 

Or how should they in Love to ME, 

Shun every Rival Foe.— 

■ — No, Til appear to answer here, 

MY Sheep astray do go, 

And they are gone from ME 'tis known 

Then Horses must appear, 

That to the Manger now will come, 

MY Chariot Wheels to clear ; 

And draw them on, as they've begun. 

Like Horses Men must be ; 

The strength of sheep is top much gone 

To stand the fight for ME. 

So I'll appear like Noah here, 

My sheep are gone astray ; 

MY words they do profess to hear, 

And so profess'd,— THEY LAY— 

In love to ME, they say they be, 

And so they follow here ; 

But as their hearts I plain do see. 

Their love I cannot bear. 

But now to thee a mystery, 

Like Noah I shall come ; 

And tell thee of thy jealousy, 

That did thee now enflame : 

The sheep were gone he told them then 

And Horses in the Room, 

That he had been one day to seek. 

And now the day is come. 

Because this year *t shall so appear, 

That Horses I shall find : 

My every Harness for to wear, 

My Chariot Wheels behind, 

Shall surely go, they all shall know 

And bring ME to MY Throne ;-*■ 



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That I shall now prepare for you, 
And claim this Earth MY own, — 
So now see clear, one shadow's here, 
How Noah wait'd to see, 
Thy every Bullocks to appear, 
That water* d they may be. 
So now to all, I thus do call, 
I waitHh for man the same ; 
That to MY Brook they all may come, 
"VVhih thirsty hearts enflam'd; 
As He was there in love appear'd, 
So is MY heart for Man : 
But if that they do act like thee, 
And miss the time I come ; 
Then they may grieve as thou'st believe 
Thou surely miss'd the whole, 
But if their arts I find like thee. 
They'll find me so to fall- 
To come again, and shew them plain, 
They way they ME did miss ; 
Tho' 1 was waiting at their doors, 
And would have shew'd them thus,— 
How 1 was come in lave to man, 
And told them of the time ; 
But they did look another way, 
The mysteries could not find—' 
And satan there did strong appear, 
To make them miss the mark ; 
As I your footsteps did prepare, 
To leave both in the dark ; 
Because the thing 1 did design, 
To bring the Shadow here ; 
And shew the substance to mankind, 
The way I shall appear; 
If Jealousy in them 1 see, 
As in thy heart did burn ; 
To think that I AM gone from thee, 
tike Noah I'll return ; 
And shew them plain how this was done 
They ne'er discern'd the time, 
And for MY Horses I was gone, 
MY Chariot Wheels to find ; 
That they may draw you all shall know 
That have MY Harness here ; 
Because MY Sheep too w^ak do go, 
To bring MY Kingdom here* 




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No't must go on in baftle strong, 

And now thy dream thou'st see; 

How in the t Air the Horses fought, 

And then came down to thee ; 

And valiant stood tho' dipt in blood, 

The colour did appear; 

And now I tell thee by My Blood, 

I'll surely conquer here, 

Angels above, inflam'd with love 

With devils do contend ; 

'And now below, you all shall know, 

They are come to fight with men ; 

Because that here, no man could bear* 

The Battle to go through ; 

The rage of hell in all to clear, 

Man never could go through : — 

To fight with all, without My Call, 

To send My Spirit Strong — 

And let My Angels guard the Way, 

Their Guardians now become. 

As thou did'st say this very day 

My life now stand'th at stake ; 

And I know well the rage of hell, 

That way would surely break — 

If I'd not plac'd My Army Strong, 

Before thou see'st the. Pitt ; 

Wherein to fall, I teil you aril, 

If men could now slay thee ; 

More fatal now than Adam's fall, 

Their ruin now 't must be : — 

As once for all my death did fall, 

The world for to redeem; 

But now no more let men take care, 

I will be slain for them. 

So if they kill, thy blood to spill, 

'Twill no atonement make : 

But as the fire on Sodom fell, 

Shall now on England break. 

And fire below they all should know, 

Would soon consume the whole ; 

And all my friends with thee should go, 

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And I'd receive your souls 

To realms of bliss, in perfect rest. 

And I'd receive you all — 

And then the flames no soul should miss, 

But be burnt like a scraU*— ~ 

I tell you first the flame should burst, 

The judgment-day should come :— 

If satan does his sufferings miss, 

And sinners die for him; 

Then, in his chair,* they may appear, 

And give him every room: 

And all his sufferings they may share, 

A,nd feel the devil's doom. 

For he is cast in hell to burst, 

And there he soon shall go i — > 

So if for him you do contend, 

His doom you'll surely know — 

And then your chairs may all appear, 

That in your hearts do stand; 

For satan's peace you'll feel it there, 

In hell with him to stand ; 

And then you'll see his chair to be, 

A flaming chair for all ; 

To keep you strong in misery, 

Your fatal peace will fall :— 

To die for hell, tjiat did rebel 

Against the Son of God ! 

And all the Angels do know well, 

The wretched paths he trod ; — 

While he above did share My Love, 

In Glory for to shine ; 

But when upon this earth he came, 

The Ruin of Mankind 

Y«u all dc know he strong does go, 

To seek it to this day— ^ 

And will you come to die for him? f 

To have My Vengeance lay ? 

* This alludes to George Hey, who lives near Leeds; and who said, that 
he always gave the devil an arm-chair in his heart, and then he did net 

trouble him. 

* 

f The same George Hey said he was to die for the devil. 



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Now all in man, can you now stand 
With backs of brass appear? 
Or are your sinews iron strong, 
That you My wrath can bear 
Ever to be in misery, 
And in devouring flames? 
My Bible you must know and see,— • 
And tremble at My Name — 
For I Am come in Love now strong, 
If Love your hearts will gain ; 
You'll find a Noah's heart to turn, 
Attd shew the mystery's plain: 
But if you'll not, I tell your lot, 
From Saul the thing you'll see; 
If you a David now do mock, 
And say My brides you be ; 
But do despise, LAM too unwise, 
To act thus like a God : — • 
Then sure to Saul, I tell yon all, 
You'll feel a David's rod. 
That you're the bride close by My side, 
And yet my ways you scorn; 
The answer see will come from ME, 
A David will be known; — 
More viler here I shall appear, 
You'll see the following day ; 
Thy history then I mean to dear, 
A David I will be — 
A Noah too—- they all shall know, 
In love for thee the same ; 
And bring the woman now will come, 
So much to praise MY Name- 
All hazards run, as she hath doiae, 
In fervent love to Me: 
Then say a Bathsheba is come, 
Whose husband slain shall be :— 
The front appear, he shall be there, 
The Harlots I'll embrace ; 
For every mystery I shall clear, 
And bring all to this race. 
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That say they are wed to ME ; 
And now despise the way I'AM come, 
But Saul's Daughter they be. 
And now the Sauls I tell them all, 
Their Children all shall die ; 
And Bathsheba more close to ME f 
Shall in My Bosom lie; 
Because unwise you me despise, 
And I'll despise you all ; 
1 You say my life that you would save, 
When first to man I call : — 
But now the Last 1 strong do burst, 
You do despise ME more, 
Than ere the Jews did at the First, 
So Saul's Daughter take care; 
L^st you do see that rage in ME, 
A bloody Husband come— 
My Bible stands in Types for ye, 
To make the end be known. 
So I'll end here, and say no more, 
Until this nigh* be past ; 
That other Wonders ^shall appear, 
To make the whole to burst." 

Here we ended on Friday evening, June 22, 1804? 
(Signed) JANE TOWNLEY. 

From the same to the same. 

p ?• Monday Afternoon, June 25, 1804. 

It is fruitless to attempt to pen the agonies 
of Joanna's heart on Sunday night, June 24, from 
the Parable of the two women, and seeing Mrs. 
B — — was the woman murdered by satan's arts: 
her sufferings seemed more than she could bear. 
We were witnesses to her sufferings till sleep 



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closed her eyes, calling to us, to beg we would join 
with her in prayer for that wretched, unfortunate 
woman; for she said, she clearly saw it was all 
satan's arts: and one parable, she said, came strong 
to her, that the Lord would act like Lord Burnet* 
which puzzled her mind, as she could not see her- 
self any likeness to the wife of Lord Burnet; for 
she was as different to her as light and darkness. 
However, she was ordered the thing should be 
penned, and it should be explained. The next 
morning, when she awoke, to add to her further 
miseries, she was told* no books should go to S — 
before they had paid the money; and she should 
remember, Ananias and Sapphira wefe struck dead 
for keeping back the money that was to be put 
into the Treasury : sand, as Joanna had sold it out, 
to put it into the Treasury to assist in carrying on 
the Lord's work; and they had kept it back — her 
soul trembled for S— ; and, as she had received 
former friendships from her, was the more wounded 
and grieved to the heart, before the mystery was 
made plain before her — and then her sorrow was 
turned into joy- After she had written the letter 
to Mrs. S — , she was ordered to pen the story- of 
Lord Burnet. It was a tale she heard when a 
child, but she cannot remember the beginning: 
only, that Lord Burnet was going to the Chace* 
and to leave his house for some days; and, before 
he went, it was said, that — 

" Down he called his merry-men all, 
By one, by two, and by three ; — 

The first came down in velvet white — 
I he second came down in Pall — 

The third came down Lord Burnet's Lady, 
The fairest of them all ; 

She look'd as bright as the Summer's sun 
Upon the little Musgroves ; and he upon she again." 

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After Lord Burnet was gon? to the Chace f 
Musgroves and Lady Buiiiet went to bed together, 
which the little Footpage made an excuse to go to 
the Lady's room; and, seeing them in bed toge- 
ther, said, that Lord Burnet should know it before 
any sleep had closed his eyes— 

" But out she put her lilly white hand: 
So white, so long, and so small ; 
And gave him a small box under the ear, 
And bid him go tell his talc- 
So the little Footpage he took to his heels 

and run, J 

And when that he came to some broad water side, 
He smote on his breast and swam; 
And when that he came to Lord Burnet's gate, 
He knock'd so loud at the ring, 
That none was so ready as Lord Burnet's 

Porter, 
To let the Footpage in— 
When that he came to Lord Burnet's Hall, 
Where Lord feurnet sat at meat; 
He said, if thou knew what news I have 

brought* 
Not a bit more thou'st now eat. 
What news ? what news ? my little footpage, 
What news hast thou brought unto me? 
My wedded Lady is she brought to bed, 
With a son or a daughter free? 
Thy wedded Lady is not brought to bed, 
With a son or a daughter free, 
But now together both in thy bed. 
The little Musgroves and she. — 
If this be a lie, Lord Burnet did cry, 
That thou hast brought unto me; 
A new pair of gallows there shall be built, 
And hanged tbou shaft be. 
If this be a true tale. Lord Burnet he cried, 
That thou hast brought unto me; 
My eldest daughter, the heir of my land. 
Thy wedded Lady she shall be# 



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If this be a lie, Lord Burnet, lie said, 

That you have brought unto me; 

A new pair of gallows there shall be bqi!t, 

And hanged I will be. * 

If this be a true Tale ! Lord Burnet, he said, 

That you have brought unto me ; 

Thy eldest daughter, the heir of thy land, 

My wedded Lady she shall be. 

The last two verses are, — the foot page repeat- 
ing Lord Burnet's words back to him again, to 
claim his promise. 

Then down he eall'd his merry-men all, 

By one, by two, and by three ; 

He bid them for to stand in stead, / 

For he did think there was never more need* 

But one that pw'd Musgroves good will, 

He took out a crumpled horn, 

And blow'd so loud and so shrill,— • 

Away, Musgroves, away ; — 4 

O, hark! O hark! said little Musgroves, 

1 think I hear my Master's men, 

Come tripping down over the plain — 

No, No, lie still, and keep your body warm, 

For neither one of my Lord Burnet's men, 

Shall do thee of I any harm. 

Then one that ow'd little Musgrove go^d will 

He took out his crumpled horn, 

And blow'd so loud and so shrill, 

Away, Musgroves, away ;— • 

O, hark! Q, hark! said little Musgroves, 

'Tis time for to be gone : 

I'm sure I hear my Master's men, 

Come tripping down over the plain* 

No, No, lie still, and keep thy body warm, 

For 'tis my father's blind shepherd, 

That's driving the sheep to the fold : — 

But when Lord Burnet came to his house, 

The Footpa'ge knock'd with the Ring, 

And then the Servant did appear, 

To let the Footpage in. 



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Lord Burnet behind, they soon did find, 
• Unto his room did go ; 

And, as the Footpage said before, 

He found thr words were true. 

Well, how dost thou like my bed, he cry'd? 

And how dost thou like my sheets? 

And how dost thou like my wedded lady, 

That lies in thy arms asleep? 

O, well I like thy bed ! he cri'd, 

And well I like thy sheets ! 

But better I like thy wedded lady, 

That lieth in my arms asleep ! 

Arise, arise, thou wicKed man, 

And put thy clothing on ; 

For "tis a shame for any Lord 

To kill a naked man. 

There are two swords up by the wall, 

Take thou the best, leave me the worst of alL 

The first blow that he struck, 

He struck Lord Burnet down ; 

The second blow Lord Burnet struck, 

His brains laid on the ground. 

Arise, arise, thou wicked woman, 

And put thy clothing on; 

For 'tis a shame for any Lord 

To kill a naked woman. 

So he kiird the Lady and Musgrove-*- 

So merrily sings the bonny thrush, 

So sadly sings the Sparrow— +• 

So merrily sung Lord Burnet himself, 

For I shall be hang'd to-morrow. 

Now, Joanna, as you have all tried your wis- 
dom and can see nothing in this Parab-e, to com- 
pare the Likeness of the Lord ;— the Likeness of 
the Adul'ress Lady, to compare with the World ; 
and her Lover to the devil that seduced her — and 
the Lord that slew them both, to the Likeness of 
Myself— I shall compare this Parable "Two ways. 
First, to My coming in the Body, as I always 
told thee to meet the Jews $ but satan adulterated 



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their minds from Me, after I was wedded to some, 
they went back and followed no more after ME. 
Then the promise came to the Gentiles, or to the 
seed of the Jews, that turned Christians; for ye 
kno v not from whence ye Sprung. There the 
Lord made the promise to the faithful Boy, and 
there the promise stands in My Bible, that if the 
Jews proved adulterers, that I would make them a 
people, that were not a people; 2nd call them be- 
lo ed, that were not beoved ; and give My Herit- 
age to others: — but here thy mind is puzzled, how 
can this stand a Type with God and Man. 
Then now in verse i will begin, 
And prove the likeness of the thing: 
When to the world I did appear, 
Confess 'd myself the Saviour there; 
And to the jews I then did come, 
They were the Brides to all Yis known: 
Because the jews, I well did know, 
They judg'd a Gon and Saviour too, 
Must both in power then appear, 
And bring the kingdom to them there—- 
And so they all were wed to ME, — 
That grandeur great I knew to be ;~- 
That Lords and Ladies I'd make all, 
And so My kingdom then should falls- 
But their adulterous hearts, I knew, 
That Love to ME they did not shew--* 
And then the promise I did make, 
That if the Jews did ME forsake j 
The Corner-stone I'd take away — 
And there my Land they ail shall see, 
Should in My daughter then appear:— 
No other way you cannot clear, 
Ever to make My Bible true; 
And bi ing the whole before your view*** 
Now mark the promise that he made, 
What to his servant then he said; 
That if a Harlot she was come, 
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Then sure his lands he'd freely give 
Unto the servant; he should live 
His eldest heir for to possess : — 
Bu- if he told him then a lie, 
Upon a gallows he should die. 
The servant held him to his word; 
He knew the truth of what he said— 
And then the horn began to blow, 
When he returned the truth to know. 
And then the servant did alarm :— 
The Fable you do not discern, — 
'Twas but blind shepherds, she did say, 
When that the horn was blow'd that way: 
And therefore he had nought to fear, 
Until her Lord he did appear; 
And, when he found himself betray'd- — 
Mark the two swords that there were laid 
And mark the way they both did fall ; 
This parable stands deep for all. 
Because the man he first did slay, 
That did his honor then betray ; 
And so the bride he did cut off; 
Have wisdom; now I've said enough. 
The Lord in anger then did lay; 
But mix'd with Love, when he did slay 
The wife that was so near his soul :— 
The parable gdes deep for all. 
For he rejoiced that he must die, 
Life was a but den, he did cry ; 
And so he sung that he must die,—- • 
To see his wife so murder 'd there, 
Adultery he could not bear: 
Because his passions they were strong. 
He made his will before to man, 
That all his lands that he should have. 
And so his promise he did crave — 
Because the youth said he would die, 
If then he told him any lie.^— 
So here's the shadow of the matt,— -- 
But now the Likeness all discern: 
And then 'I'll turn another way, 
When I've explained the first to thee* 



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For I'll go back to Adam's fall, 
For there the Type stands deep for all; 
And there the Adultery first was plac'd, 
When satan's arts the woman cast : — 
And then the blame was cast on ME, 
And so the rage began that way ; 
For though he struck Me to the ground, 
The second sword must sure be found: 
For 1 shall surely bruize his head; 
Mark ye the promise, how 'twas made 
Unto the youth that did appear, 
Because the Parable lies there • 
Unto the promise that was made, 
He'd live or die, you know he said,— 
And to the promise bid him stand; 
In Death or Life he did demand, 
That to n<* o d I there should stand. 
If he told truth; ihe truth should be 
To be the heir ; — blind mortals see : 
If he told les, then on his head, 
He said the gallows should be laid, 
To build anew for him to die : 
Now here the hidden mystery lies. 
The woman then was murder'd there, 
By satan's arts that did appear ; 
Because that 1 pronounced her dead; 
But know the curse on satan laid— 
When he had stung me to the soul, 
Betray 'd the woman, now see all — 
My honor then engag'd 't must be, 
When I'd pronouncd the curse on he % 
To slay the woman at that time; 
But here's a mystery lies behind. 
He bid her put her clothing on. 
And said to murder 't w r as a shame, 
A naked woman to appear — 
And know the man stood guilty there ; 
Tho' lie the truth in all had told, 
Another mystery I'll unfold. 
The youth that did the tidings bring, 
Repent'd when he had seen the thing; 
His dying Lord for to appear, 



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His Lady murdered— Servant tncfe ; 
AH three together thus did fall; 
We felt her blow I tell you all, 
That she did strike him M'ith her harm, 
Too late he wish'd he'd never swam 
Over the Brook, that way to go, 
Or, ever let his Master know, 
That by the man he was betray VI, 
He then repent *d of what he said : 
But bis repentance came too J ate. 
When he saw all had met their fate. 
And how his promise could he claim, 
When by his words his Lord was slain, 
No, there his promise it might stand, 
Could he with confidence -demand* 
The promise that was made him first, 
When that before him Three were plac'd 
As murder 'd by his busy hand ,* 
As he himself did then condemn — 
And wish'd he'd left the evil lie, 
Sooner than cau-s'd his Lord to die ; 
Tho' first in love he did appear, 
Thinking the Servant for to clear : 
That from his House he then did go, 
No other way he meant the blow ; 
Then for to free the servant man, 
In love to him, he then did stand ; 
But when he saw his great mistake, 
In agonies his heart did break ; 
And thought no lands where due to he, 
That caus'd the murder of these three" 



Here we ended on Monday Night June the 25th 
1804. — —The six days Joanna having been con- 
fined to her Bed, without being permitted to put 
on her Clonths before she hears the .Voice of the 
Lord call her aloud, as she has often heard it 
before. 



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^Tuesday Morning, June 26th, 1804* 

After we had dropped our Pens on Monday 
Night, Joanna and Townley were gone to bed* 
as she now sleeps with Joanna, and only returns 
to her lodgings at times iii the day. Soon after 
ten o'clock Joanna went out of bed, and walked 
up and down the room: about eleven Underwood 
tame up, and saw Joanna walking up and down 
the room ; at last she broke out with great power 
of the Spirit* and great fury — Underwood not 
knowing at first ftom what spirit it was^ that she 
seemed in that fury; asked, if she should read to 
her to sooth her; but Joanna answered NO, she 
wanted nothing to sooth her, for she felt nothing 
but Joy. She walked to and fro shaking the very 
house, exclaiming against the devil, saying, hither- 
to satan hath walked up and down the Earth; but 
now he had cast himself, and he should walk up 
and down no more— for the Lord would now walk 
up and down the Earth in his stead— he accused 
My Handmaid of disobeying the commands of the 
Lord; but here were the Two Witnesses to prove 
him a liar, but you cannot understand the sense 
of this, if I do not tell you the particulars After 
the shadow of the First Seven Days, that was said 
to be the shadow of her Trial, Joanna was order-* 
ed to undress and go to bed, and never to arise 
to put on her Cloaths more, before she heard the 
Voice of the Lord call her aloud, in the same man- 
ner she had often heard it beforehand in the 
satne manner she heard a voice call aloud, Torn, 
the very morning that the Letter came from ? he 
Hev. Thomas P. Foley; but his name was called 
aloud in the morning, and three or four hours after* 
wards came his distressing letter^ that was answer- 

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ed and sent bv an Express by a Horn, that blow^ 
ed aloud. Joanna asked Underwood, if she did 
not hear the Voice, as she was then in the R/oom; 
Underwood answered no. Joanna was surprised, 
and said, it walked her; in the same manner she 
was answered, she must hear her own name cal- 
led before she did arise from her bed as before ; 
but she was ordered to come out of her bed, and 
walk up and down the Room without any Cloth- 
ing, but her Linen that she sleeps in, which she 
often did ; and walked up and down hasty like 
one in a Fever with her Fan in \\er hand, some- 
times with the Fan open, and sometimes closed, 
throwing it to and fro, saying, I am come to do 
my Father's Will, treading down the Wine press 
of His wrath; but Joanna says, when she was 
confined to her bed the first days, she was very 
powerfully visited by the devil many times a day: 
He asked her once if this was the Love of Christ 
to her, to keep her there in her bed :— -Joanna 
answered, yes, "His Yoke was easy and His Bur- 
then was light." — He had not laid upon her such 
heavy Burthen, as HE HIMSELF bare for her; 
and she knew the Lord had wise ends for keeping 
her in bed, which she enjoyed, as she felt no pain, 
but could lay down upon her bed, when she was 
minded to with pleasure. Then the devil would 
aggravate her another way, and tell her she was 
an idle, lazy Bitch, and she ought to get up — she 
answered, she never would, till the Lord called 
her aloud : but those aggravating, provoking 
speeches of the devil mad^ her eager and desirous 
in her heart, that the Lord would call her aloud, 

to stop the contentious Tongue of the devil. — 

Sunday mornings Seeing four days had past 

and she had heard no voige to call her, only Mr. 



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Foley's name repeated, she went out of bed and 
washed herself, and took off her night cap, and 
asked Underwood for clean Linen, as she thought 
to herself, perhaps the Lord would call her 
when she was naked, as He called Adam: but 
finding she was deceived, she laughed at her own 
folly, and told us her simple thoughts, which di- 
verted us all. Alter that the devil plagued her 
again, and said, she was a fool to tell them how 
she was disappointed, for as we did not hear the 
Voice call Tom, they could not hear the Voice 
call Joanna ; so she might have deceived them, 
and told them that the Lord had called her. Jo- 
anna answered, thou devil, I cannot deceive the 
Lord, and what good is it to deceive them ; they 
cannot proted me in the hour of danger, and it 
is by His Power I stand or fall -.—then the devil 
plagued me auother way, and said it was he that 
used to call me, and now I had forbid him from 
me, he would never call me more ; so if I laid iii 
bed till my name was called, I might lay a bed 
for ever. I said so I would and die in my bed, if 
the Lord did never call me aloud to get out of it t 
for if he had power to do all these wondrous things 
He surely had power to call me aloud. In this 
manner I have been in and out plagued with the 
devil, trying every way to make me get up with- 
out being called, which I would not do for ten 
thousand Worlds, for I would sooner die in my 
bed. Then the devil brought to my remembrance 
a former thing that I had heard, and said the 
Lord was dealing with me, as a Fathfer did with 
his Daughter, who was deeply in love with a 
Gentleman the Father did not like, and he beat 
her so severely — 

" That the BIomts they fell sore;** 
So She took to her bed, 
And She never rose more. " 



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And so it would be with me, if I waited till the 
Lord called me. I said, I did not care for that, 
for I would sooner die in nay led, than disobey 
the Lord. When the devil found no arguments! 
could make me to arise, the sixth day he came an- 
other wav, and upbraided me that I had arose, 
and walked up and down the room ;•— I said, I 
was ordered to go up and down the room some- 
times, and then go into my bed again; but the 
devil kept on plaguing me in that manner, that I 
had arose, till I told Townley and Underwood to 
be witnesses against him, and tp!d them what h§ 
had said, and asked them if they could prove that 
was rising from, the bed, to go out without 
any Clothing about the Room. They said no— r 
that was not rising without your Clothing ; you 
cannot go out in t.he Street so, nor out of your 
Hqorn, the Lord had ordered you to walk; see- 
ing the Agonies I was in, by the provoking Lies 
Of the devil. They both fell down upon theiir 
knees by pi y bed side, and Townley said we will 
say the Lord's Prayer together, which we three 
joined in ; then we prayed to the Lord to chain 
down S^tan, for having entered into man to be- 
tray HIS only SON, our BLESSED SAVIOUR 
and REDEEMER, <md having caused HIM to 
die the Ignominipus Death, upon the Cross, and 
HIS dear precious and innocent Blood, to be shed 
for the Sins of mankind ,• "but FATHER forgive 
% ■ them, for they know pot what they do," and 

hasten to cut off all the powers of darkness. 

When this prayer was ended, I felt a swimming 
round my head, and the powers of darkness broke 
off from me. I then was ordered to pen the Pa- 
yable of the Lord Burnet, as I had learnt it when 
a child, but could not see hpw it could be explained 



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any way, to bring it to the Likeness of Christ I 
had the Parable wrote as I learnt when a Child, 
but did not understand the explanation, till it came 
to the promise made to the Boy, when the Eyes 
of my Understanding began to be opened; but 
as it was come to night, and Towhley and Under- 
wood, had staid up till two o'clock the night be-, 
fore, tos^ndoffthe EXPRESS to London : we 
shut up writing at Candle-light, after fownley 
came to bed with me, I felt" the Spirit working 
strong in me, of the depth of Lord Burnet's words 
when he said, 

u If this be a lie Lord Burnet he said 

That thou hast brought unto me— 

A new pair of Gallows there shall be built, 

And hanged thou shalt be." 

I knew they were lies which the devil brought a- 
gainst me, and therefore felt the force of the 
words; that now the second time the New Gal- 
lows must be built for the devil, for he must be 
as honest as the Boy was, or the Lord will make 
him : as Lord Burnet would have hang'd his Boy, 
if he had come with lies to disgrace hh Wife, had 
she been innocent, but she was not. But I knew 
I was innocent, for I have never suffered a man 
to come into my presence, since I was forbid; 
neither would I suffer myself to look into the 
Street, fearing I should see a man, and it was not 
all the arts the devil could use, v/ould make me 
disobey my Lord, And now, I know HE will be 
like Lord Burnet, do to the guilty lying wretch, 
that hath defiled the whole World by sin, as Lord 
Burnet did to his Wife and Servant, and Lord 
Burnet's death is past already, in our SAVIOUR'S 
fceing Crucified upon the Cross, after HE bad cut 
OjT^U th§ brides, that defiled His Bed, and de- 



'filed His Honor, by following after other Loveris, 
that were defiled by the arts of the devil; but 
then the Blow came to man instead of the devil, 
ss it came to Judas when he had betrayed our 
SAVIOUR to" defile V e Jews— The first Blow 
that he struck, struck him down to the power of 
'men: — but -the second blow that our SAVIOUR 
struck, when BE struck to Jiidas's heart and con- 
science, HE then struck him dead, as he went 
and 'bought a Halier to hang himself. lie then 
called forward the Jews; or, they were called 
forward, as an Adulterous Race agak&t Him ; anil 
then the natural Branches were cut off; and then 
HE said, like Lord Burnet, t.h'at now HE must 
die for the whole, and gave up HIS Life upon 
the Cross, seeing H;s Honour betrayed, His Bed 
defiled, and so He cast the Adulterers into the 
Bed together.— Then now go back to the other 
Promise mude by Lord Burnet,— 



" If this be a true Tale my little footpage, 
That thou hast brought unto me ; 
-My eldest Daughter the Heir of my Laud, 
Thy wedded Lady She shall be;^— 
Then mark, ye hold me to my Word, 
And row discern your dying Lord, 
That as in Adam you died here ; 
live eldest Daughter must appear, 
If you'll possess My every Land, 
Then now the Marriage al! command ; 
Tho 'tis the youngest doth appear, 

The eldest Daughter is not here. * 

And how that way could it ere come ? 
Bring back the Parable to man. 
When by his ways the whole was slain, 
What elder Daughter could he gain, 
To join with him in heart and hand ? 
When she condemn'd it in the Man, 
That by his Justice a\\ was cast ! 
Tho* unto her all wrong did burst.-— 



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She thought that he should sin conceal, 

Sooner than go for to reveal, 

The Crime her Mother then had done; 

She east the blame upon the man— 

Her iVl other's Crime she did not see ; 

Her Fathers Honor to betray ; 

To bring her Footman to his Bed, 

She thought that Evil might be hid :• — 

And in her heart condemn'd the man, 

That told her Father what she'd done ;— » 

And he himself as much did blame, 

When ail the deaths he saw that came 

From every Truth that he had told- — 

The mysteries here I shall unfold. — ? 

When that My Truth did come to man, 

Discovers! first by satan's hand; t 

I said, if so it did appear, 

That he the tru'h had spoken there; 

My eldest Daughter then would be, 

I well know then the Brides of he, 

Till every heir [ had cut off, 

And all My Lands were gone to nought, 

And now to nought they all are come — 

I said the Woman did condemn 

The love to man that did appear. 

And all the blame she cast it there 

Upon the devil, that betray'd; 

For so the Likeness now Pve laid — > 

The Shadow's in the simple man, 

That smote his breast — in haste did run — — 

And so in haste he did appear, 

The Types for men and devils here; 

Because he : aid, if that he did lie, 

The Gallows. should come round that way— « 

Unto His words the man did hold. 

Then now let satan's heart grow cold ; 

For when the Truth [ came to know — 

Both lies and truth from him did flow;— 

'Twas true that they had disobey 'd, 

But 'twas by him they were betray'd- — • 

Then f;ow the second words shall come, 

Tkejyounger Daughter shall be known/ 

Shall gain the Every JandforMei 

As then the. elder did for he; 

Because the L^st shall now be Fkst^ 



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For so My Bible all is placd. 

And if the last the rirst appears. 

The elder Daughter sure is here, 

That now shall gain My every Land, 

And you with her in Marriage stand ; 

Then all My Lands you now shall have. 

For true are the words the Man did give^ 

To say the woman him betray'd, 

And true the woman then she said, 

hatan had tempt'd her thus to do, 

And every word I t knew was true. 

Therefore tne Curse pronoune'd it great '0*. 

For well I knew where laid deceit ; 

But then My Honof could not clear, 

As Disobedience I found there. 

The man and woman soon did own> 

And so in death they both did come 

Dead to ail knowledge then of Me*r* 

The other Promise none do see, 

That lie'th behind prepared for man; 

If his bed was dehTd by One,- 

A servant then that did appear, 

Another servant was the Heir; 

Because the Truth that he had told ; 
And now the mystery I'll unfold — 

The Truth by him was tola! at firsts 

"What from the woman's hand did bursas 

And when the woman did appear, 

And said the serpent tempted her there ; 

And so the words 1 knew were true, 

And cast on satan then his due; 

But as the whole were naked then, 

I could not fight with simple men, 

That had no Clothing then to clear, 

1 knew no knowledge then was there* 

Therefore their Clothing / put on, 

And at that time /covered them, 

With nought but boat Skins 1 put on, 

!TiH ages faster did roll on — 

1 hen every Clothing J put on, 

To shew My BfBLE and My Wori*, 

And shew them all My glittering Sword J— » 

Flow all My Bible it doth stand, 

And here's the Clothing you command; 

If like that youth you now will be, 

And put your Clothing on for Me j— » 




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Against the devil now complain, 

You all may swim through Jordan's strearp; 

But if in beds dcriPd you lie, 

In satan's arms, f now do say, 

Just like they two you all shall fall, 

And here's a warning to you all — 

For now my promise it shall stand — 

My daughter now shall gain the Land, 

And all that are in Bonds with she, 

My every Land shall gain that way : — •*- 

For now the Truth is fairly try'd, 

I've chose her for to be the Bride, 

And / MYSELF to be the Heir; 

My FATHERs every land to share-* 

For now Til place MYSELF toman, 

That said he'd die the Truth to claim 

If it was lies upon his head, 

He said on him it should be laid — 

And so he said the Truth to clear 

He'd die, or be the perfect Heir ; 

And so in grief he first did die — 

The second promise still must lie, 

For he to be the perfect heir ; 

And now the Likeness I've brought here. 

For now the Truth I say shall burst, 

I plae'd the Likeness of the First 

In true Obedience for to stand, 

The men and women I command — - 

What I forbid they must not do ;> 

What I command they must pursue-* 

And by the Women this is done, 

And satan like the Footpage came: 

Or, in My form he did appear, 

And strong belied the Woman here—* 

Which I did say, if it was true, 

Yd give him Gentiles and the Jews-— 

Yd give him up My every Land, 

If he the truth could now command. 

But when the Truth 1 came to know, 

I found the liar so to go, 

With nought but lies he did appear, 

To say that thou had'st risen here, 

A way that [ did thee forbid ; 

And now 111 bring it on his head ; 

Because the lies he told at first, 

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Upon his head I plac'd the Curse ; 
But to go through 1 could not clear; 
Because that man was guilty here. 
But now from guilt I know thou'rt free, 
Because 'twas I that order'd thee 
Out of thy bed that way to come; 
And so to travel up and down, 
The skeleton for to appear. 
The naked woman you see here : 
As she appear'd in nought but bone, 
And thou no clothing hadst got on— * 
For, at that time, I sure was there, 
"When satan did so strong appear; 
For to condemn with every lie, 
I tell thee 1 was standing by— * 
And I the Witnesses did hear; 
So the blind shepherds may appear. 
That to the Fold do drive my sheep, 
That way he lulls them ail asleep; 
And in his arms he holds them fast, 
UntiT with rage that I shall burst, 
And place him in Lord Burnet's room, 
For there he's bringing on their doom— 
Upon the Nation I see first, 
The men and women so are plac'd, 
By satan's fury first to die; 
He holds them, and he then does cry, 
That they are guilty of the deed: 
He tells them 'tis no use to flee, 
Because of dangers there are none— 
*Tis the blind shepherds blow the horn, 
That at the midnight men did hear, 
And at the mid-day did appear— 
For I have gone through day and night, 
To blow the horn the wretch to fright: 
Or else, to make mankind to fear, 
That they may part and sin no more. 
But judge that danger's in the sound, 
That in their beds they mayn't be found: 
For if that satan find them so, 
I know his fury it must go, 
And say that they are justly cast ; 



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Because he found them in their lust f 
In every thing that I forbid; 
Then in this truth- he may proceed, 
To strike them with the fatal blow; 
Though his own death 1 well do know 
Shall follow after like the man ; 
And that's the wav his death shall come/ 
Because his bride he's murdering here, 
That he by sin have wedded clear; 
But yet no bridegroom can he stand, 
'Tis but a shadow of the man— 
And that's the way they will be cast, 
That like the woman now do burst; 
When they My alarming Horn do hear, 
To say blind shepherds do appear, 
Driving my sheep unto the Fold, 
That way their hearts will all grow co!d # 
Then to the others I shall come, 
That spoke the truth you know by man; 
And if the truth was found in he,— 
You know the lands were said to be 
Then with My Heiress all his own; 
And perfect so it now shall come : 
Because that I'll stand to the word, 
And he shall tremble at a God, 
That came in power the truth to see- 
Therefore the night I workM in thee, 
To leave thy bed, and travel on, 
The words before thee must be shewn." 



After part of the explanation given to me, con- 
cerning the parable of Lord Burnet^ all the sense 
of what has been written fo-day, broke in upoa 
me, after they had given over writing. J then 
was answered, " take np thy bed and walk," As 
I was walking up and down, pondering in my 
heart the events of the day, and what was said of 
the promise made to the Boy, if he had told the 
truth, the Spirit of the Lord entered into me with 



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power, whjch must be reserved till another day 3 
as 'tis time to prepare for the post. 

We all join in kindest Christian love to yourself, 
Mrs. Foley, and the dear little Richard. This 
second Horn mentioned, is an express that was 
sent off to M> Sup, on Monday morning at 
two o'clock; I think much more wonderful th n. 
any yon ha v e. seen yet " So the Horns went through* 
day and night ;" for the v would arrive at Mr. Sharps 
al out nine or ten o'clock, "these Horns are said x o 
be the Horns of the Lord, blowing to awaken the 
nation ; as Lprd Burnet's scr -ant bio wed his Horn, 
to awuken the Lady and the FopfoVao; but if the 
nation be like the Lady and the Footman, judge 
it is nothing but the blind shepherds of the Lord, 
driving their sheep to the Fold, they will find 
the Lady's sudden destruction, though satan's doom 
must follow after; if they give themselves into 
his power, which they are now hastily doing. For 
the power of God that was in me last night, and 
the words that were then spoken against the 
powers of 'darkness, and against the second trumpet 
that is 'now' blowing ; — »for, as Christ died at the 
First Horn, when the Horn of the Gospei was first 
pronounced,— so the Second Horn is the Horn of 
Redemption, that must bring the promise that was 
inade to man : and safari must, with his followers, 
now fall together; for that Parable gpeth deep to 
the nation, and will bring in a sudden destruction. 
Therefore, this must go in print. If they say I 
am writing ftom songs, teil them they are fatal 
song that they are singing; and such songs as lull 
them all asieep. 

(Signed) i 

JANE TOWNLEY. 



loo 

From the same to the same. 

Tuesday, July 3, 1804. 
Rev. Sir, 

I shall omit sending you the particulars 
of John Svmoiis, to tell you the wonders oi last 
night, on Monday evening, July 2. After Joanna 
had been to supper, and Underwood thought her 
composed, and going to sleep; and she said she 
believed she shouid. Townley then came up, 
and said her two false teeth had both fallen out, 
and she feared it w r ou!d alter her voice: Joanna 
said, she did not think it did alter her voice, and 
rejoiced they were fallen out, and said they must 
not be put in any more. Townley said they should 
Hot, and then went to bed; but Joanna desired it 
might be remembered, that they fell out the day 
that John Symons would receive his letter about 
himself and Pomeroy. Joanna says, she felt her- 
self dull and heavy to go to seep; but the Spirit 
oi the Lord kept her waking. She was ordered 
to take up her bed and walk: for, as she walked 
every night, so should the arrows of death fly fast 
by night, and the Pestilence should go by day; for 
now thousands should fall on the right hand, and 
ten thousands 011 the left : for the destroying Angel 
should go forth, and go up and down the earth, as 
she went up and down the foorri. Here she says 
the fury of the Lord broke in so strong upon her, 
that took away her senses. She cannot recollect 
any thing further, only if Pomeroy would turn the 
King's evidence, to tell who so powerful !y per- 
suaded him, to deny his Lord* and Master, the 
!p>rn would now, at the last, forgive him and cast 
the others; but, n he would not, they should^ all 



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die together, and fatal would be their end. The 
Lord had placed Pomeroy as foanna's judge, per- 
fectly as Pilate was placed our Saviour's judge. 
But lie should remember the words the Lord sad 
unto Pilate, he that delivered Me -unto.tliee hatii 
the greatest sin ; and he that tempted Pomeroy 
to draw back hath the greatest sin. B it Joanna 
says, her senses entirely left her; this she remem- 
bers, Uut the other she does not remember: and 
says, we have told her strange things this morning, 
that we ourselves, Town ley arid Underwood,- are 
commanded to pen. She walked about the room 
with as much fury of the Lord as at any former 
time; and stamped with such fury that the whole 
house shook, and alarmed the people in the house. 
*The Master of the house went into the street, and 
heard the noise the same in the street as in the 
house. Joanna spoke so powerfully to satan, telling 
3iim his doom, and she appeared to fix her eye, 
and to extend her arm towards one spot, that I, 
Townley, who was then alone in the room with 
her, thought Joanna saw satan; but Townley felt 
no fear. Soon after Underwood returned into the 
room, J( anna said, if we wished for rest we must 
take up our beds and go to our tents: but we told 
her we preferred staying with her. She then went 
on walking about the room, talking loud and 
powerfully WHAT the Lord was going to dj upon 
the earth, and stamping her foot violently. Her 
fury about satan. I have told you: but what she 
said about men, and to whom she pointed, I am 
ordered to keep secret, and only to write it as a 
memorandum for myself; as only the Friends are 
to see it, that they may know the end of all things. 
She walked in this fury a full half hour, and then 
got into bed, and went on talking, but in a different 



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voice. Tt then appeared to me, Townley, as if 
our Saviour was speaking in her, and reminded 
us what our blessed Saviour suffered for our sakes:. 
the wbrds exactly I cannot recollect, but she told, 
us she felt a heavenly joy within her. She then 
was more composed, and went to sleep; and we 
did the same. And now I shall come to Joanna's 
information. She says that she does not remem- 
ber a word, but Townley hath just called to her 
remembrance, that Joanna particularly told us,, 
that man had been twice dead, and twice plucked up 
by the roots. But after Joanna went to sleep, she 
dreamt that a circle was placed over her head, 
with a circle like the sun in the middle, in a round 
ciicle, bright and fiery. Round the circle of the 
sun were black clouds; which fell over her, and 
fastened her to her bed. She then felt herself 
dying, atijd fainted away with the agonies she bore; 
and thought she was immediately taken out of her 
bed, and carried, in a most wonderful manner, to 
the bottom of the bed : she felt the curtains burst 
before her, and she was carried round the room* 
She wfshed to awake Underwood and Townlev, 
and tell them to see the -beginning of miracles, 
and to see the two white hands that clasped 
rmnd her; but she does not remember that they 
awoke to see either. She was then carried awav 
out of the room into the open world, and* passing 
by some people; she thought she had got ..on a 
branched linen gown, with green flowers on the 
top; a gown she had got lately, but never wore' 
it but one day. Some of the people, as she 
passed by, she thought said, that she had got on 
the serpent's dress; but she thought to herself 
she had no serpent's dress on, and reflected with 
heisfclf what the gown was — the running branches 



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that bring she green leaves of victory: so that 
gown must be shewn to man, to see what judg- 
ment they will draw from the gown, that fools 
judge the serpent's dress: but (here they will see 
the running branches purple without, — the black 
cross in the middle, — and the four square green 
flowers without, that bring the green leaves to 
man — the summer that is nigh at hand— there- 
fore, let men take care that they do not say, 
tl The harvest is over, the dav and the summer 
is ended, but we are not saved;" after this she was 
brought again into her bed, after being carried to 
different places. She then aw< ke, and heard 
some one knock at her door, in the same manner 
that Undeiwood used to knock to call her to 
breakfast. She called out, Who is there? Town* 
ley, being awake, sa:d^ she heard no. one knock or 
call : this was after the day was broke. She then 
Jay still to compose herself to sleep; but felt a 
hand come round her, and a head come over her, 
that she thought kept breathing in upon her, with 
ttiore powerful breath than ever was the force of 
air from a smith's bellows, that blowed the fire 
for the anviL She thought to herself she should 
be afraid, if she did not know herself to be in 
the hands of God; but her perftcf love had cast 
out fear, that she neither feared men nor devils. 
The devils before her seemed like gnats or flies, 
that you can kill with the flip of your finger; 
and men appeared, before her, no other than th£ 
grass that is to be mowed down: for now she 
looks upon all men as grass, and the beauty 
thereof to fade and decay, that must be cut down 
\o nourish the Sheep and Oxen, that the Lord' 
Will preserve: and these Bullocks £ that will give 

i All of the Cow-kind, in Devonshire, are called Bullocks,, 



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Milk, to bring forth the Cream of his words,—* 
so the after-grass is preserved for them, when fhe 
mowing grass is cut down. After this she tried to 
sleep to compose herself and felt as above. At last she 
Fell asleep with the strong breathings that were 
over her head, which is impossib?e for her to 
describe, and which took her senses quite away — ; 
and whether awake or asleep she does not know ; 
but she remembers that she was quite awake when, 
she felt the hand of the Lord upon her; but in 
that heavenly and beautiful manner, that she felt 
joy unspeakable and full of glory. She felt herself 
laying as it were in heaven, in the hands of the 
Lord, and was afraid to move, fearing she should 
remove his heavenly hand, which she felt as per- 
fect as ever woman felt the hand of her husband. 
In this happy manner I fell asleep, and in my sleep 
I was surprised with seeing a most beautiful and 
heavenly figure, that arose from the bed between 
Townley and me. He arose, and turned himself 
backward towards the feet of the bed, and his 
head almost reached the tester of the bed, but 
his face was towards me, which appeared with 
beauty and majesty, but pale as death. His hair 
was a flaxen color, all in disorder around his face. 
His face was covered with strong perspiration: no 
man in a salivation could appear worse. His 
locks were wet like the dew of the night, as 
though they had been taken out of a river. The 
collar of his shirt appeared unbuttoned, and the 
skin of his bosom appeared white as the driven 
snow, Such was the beauty of the heavenly 
figure, that appeared before me in a disordered 
state: but the robe He had on was like a surplice 
down to his knees. He put out one of his legs 
to me, that was perfectly like mine, no larger; 



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but with purple spots at the top, as mine are with 
beating myself, which Townley, Underwood, and 
Taylor are witnesses of* Met hough t in my dream 
HE got himself in that perspiration, being pressed 
to sleep between Townley and me, I said to 
Him, are you my dear dying Saviour, that is 
come to destroy all the works of the devil? HE 
answered me, Yes. I thought I caPed Underwood 
and waked Townley to look at Him, which they 
did with wonder and amaze. I then thought £ 
would go out of my bed, and fell, down on my" 
knees before Him, to return Him thanks for His 
mercy and goodness; but, as soon as these thoughts 
entered my head, He disappeared, and a woman 
appeared in. His st^d, which gave me pain to see 
he was gone; but the woman told me many won- 
derful things that were coming upon the earth, 
and what was coming upon the devil : but, as she 
said she knew me at such a time, before she was 
a spirit, I marvelled how she should know any 
thing of me, and grieved at the loss of my dear 
Redeemer, for I saw no beauty in the woman: 
but my sorrow was, that I had lost sight of Christ; 
and though the woman would reason strong with 
me, but her reasons I did not like. In this con- 
fusion I awoke, and heard the bell tolling for the 
dead, and the drums beating at the same time; 
which 1 remarked to Townley. Soon after, I 
heard the Master of the house, as though he was 
hammering with both hands. I asked what he 
was doing, to make such a noise; but Underwood 
told me he was making a chicken-coop, to keep 
in the chickens — Now let this be sent as it is to 
Foley, Bruce, Sharp, and Taylor; for no explana- 
tion shall be given this day : only let them try 
their own judgments, and they shall have the 



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explanation another time. We can but just 

save the Post; and we unite in kind Christian 
love to Mrs. Foley, dear little Richard, and your- 
self- 

(Signed) 

JANE TQWNLEY. 

P. S. In the morning, before we began writing, 
Joanna called for the Bible, and opened it at the 
second chapter of Haggai; which she desires you 
will read and weigh deep. 



From the same to the same, 

Friday Morning, July 2o, 1804* 
Reverend Sir, 

Joanna was ordered to have a jour- 
nal from Sunday last copied off regular, with the 
singular things concerning herself from the Sunday 
to the Friday following; and the reasons are to 
be assigned to her, why she was ordered £0 bring 
it in this manner. 

The answer of the Spirit— 

** And now, Joanna, I shall assign the rea<on% 
why I ordered thee to put on THY THREE 
RINGS, and bring forward the shadow of thy 
Journal. But now call back to the substance; in 
what manner thh hath been carried on — first, thy 
despair; next, the power of My Spirit, coming 
with fury in thee— then mark what follows after, 
how often my Spirit have been like fury in thee, 
declaring My threatnings against men and devils; 



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*r-then mark thy Promise made to ME, and My 
Promise to thee :— then let every one weigh deep, 
how it went on from the power of My Spirit, the 
fury of My Spirit; what I poured out day after 
day T night after night, that should come on men 
and devihs, that now MOCK My reign. It is not 
to hear My voice: it is not to discern the wqids 
that are spoken in a day— if you do not discern^ 
My Footsteps, trace them track after track, word 
after word, day after day, how I began, and how 
I AM going on. First, to shew My thi;eatriings 
and My Power in thee, and by thee — then come 
on thy disputes yj'tth sa'an— thcii^ My Fury break- 
ing again in thee; — then come on thy disputes 
with man. But here let them see I have Jjrought 
thee low, to shew mankind what Mv Fury will 
bring upon THIS UNBELIEVING'NAI ION, 
aud upon all NATIONS; for I shall mi:ke4bem 
as sick with smiting them, as thou wast THAT 
DAY.: but their sickness will not end like thine, 
to leave them in a day, and seemed to be r^storecj 
the following day. But I tell thee their's will 
CONTINUE, till they will say with Cain, " My 
troubles are greater than I can heai, 5 ' I cannot 
shun the judgments of a God, whem I have so 
long mocked and despised. Let them look on thee 
and see THE SHADOW— then let them trem- 
ble for THE SUBSTANCE- For, know, as 
Isaac was bound as a Type of Me, and the arrows 
of death went through Abraham and Isaac, as 
judging he must be slain : but then man was pre r 
served, and after that I was slain. So now the 
scenes are changed another way ; thou only bearest 
in My stead the shadow of Isaac; and, though 
they are crucifying thee daily for My si ke in the 
Spirit, and thou feelest it in the gody;— yet f 



fit 

fcnow, I DIED ONCE FOR ALL, and I shall 
DIE NO MORE FOR MAN. And every sor- 
row thou now feelest, every dagger ihpy have 
placed in thy breast, shall be returned DOUBLE 
upon this ungrateful Nation, — upon th*s ungrate- 
ful People,— that' DESPISE the Warn ng, DE- 
SPISE the Invitation; DESPISE the Redemption 
pf ME that loved them, and gave My Lfe for 
them: for now Joanna, I tell thee, My appetite 
is like thine, gone from everv one, that are NOT 
LONGING for THE COMING of the Lord/ 
And now see where thy Appetite is gone — Thy 
Appetite is gone from every Fruit — thy Appetite 
is gone from Fish and Flesh— thy Appetite is gpne 
from the Bread of man, nay, from the Flour of 
Wheat, for all appear to thee but Bran; thou can'st 
digest nothing but the Bread of Heaven, which is 
MY WORD coming down to thee* Now, Jo- 
anna, I tell thee why I have taken thy Appetite 
from every things but the virtue of the Flesh boil- 
ed in water, and. Herbs eaten with it, and Wine 
to drink— know, that out of My side came Blood 
and Water— the next words stumbled Joanna, as 
she did not know there were such words in the 
Bible, "AS MY FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, 
AND MY BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED." 
She remembered the other Evangelists, but had 
forgot they were in St. Johns Gospel, 6th, chap* 
and 55th verse. 

Here follows the answer. — 

H Now, Joanna, thee I'J] answer, 
J AH, JEHOVAH, is thy Master, 
A\\ thy doubts I now' shall clear; 
It was I that work 'd within thee^ 



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Every perfect truth to see ; 

In the Truth I shall defend thee;-— 

Search my word, that's on record, 

And see how ail do stand ; 

And then they'll find 'tis from theirLord, 

That did the whole command. 

I said, the bread must be Wy Word, 

-And now My Word is come — 

I said, My Flesh should be your food, 

And now thy. food is known. 

1 he virtue here that doth appear 

From si m p I e shee p to be ; 

But know the flesh thou canst not bear, 

No, 'tis the flesh of Me 

Is at! thy Food, that do allude 

With herbs is mingled here; 

It is the water from my side, 

Is all that thou can'st bear, 

And know the wine, for I AM the vine 

That doth thee here support ;~- 

And now I'll tell thee of mankind, 

The way the Bread doth hurt — 

I said, at fiist My Bread was plac'd, 

7o be the Bread for man ; 

The way my body they should taste, 

But they did ne'er discern; 

That at the fast My Flock should burst, 

From heav'n 't must all come down; 

And now I tell .thee of thy taste, — 

Thy appetite is found 

Sicken'd of all that men do call 

The perfect Bread of Me; 

No, 'tis the water nnd.the blood, 

That now must set you free. 

The Bread of Life must end the strife 

Which comes from Heaven's High 

Throne— - 
The bread of man may soon be gone,—** 
For, now I shall disown 
All those that come now in My Name, 
And do My Ftesh deny; 
I'll put My Shepherds all to shame, 



■jt§ 

They like the Sheep may die—* 

An I Be the Flesh for to bring forth 

A Food thou can'st not bear; 

No, 'tis from Me they all shall see, 

The blood and water here: 

For now I AM come, I tell you plain* 

So perfectly like thee;— 

My appetite from alt is gone ;— 

Mv Body I do see 

Is broken here as men appear, 

To make it earthly food — 

And nothing but the bran is here, 

They've all rejusd the good: 

HTis but a few I well do know, 

That in the vine do stand: 

Tho' they as fruit their works do shew, 
They are ripen'd to my hand. 

But now their taste will not digest 
I say, no more to Me; 

Than thou can'st bear the earthly fruit. 

That's ripen'd on the trees : 

Just so is man their fruit become, 

As loathsome in My sight; 

And they shall find, be tore 'tis long, 

I do them all dislike: 

As thou dost here, all fruit appears 

Quite loathsome unto thee: 

And loathsome let the Shepherds hear, 

Their fruit is all to ME: 

Because their fruit is to the root, 

To slay their Lord once more; 

Then kt such shepherds all stand mute, 

Their fruit I cannot bear—- 

No ! there the axe I now will fix, 

To cut such branches clown : — 

Ami then to satan 1 shall fix, 

Por he shall feel his Wound. 

The fruit is gone I see in man, 

Ana barren minds appear, 

To think My Gospel e'er must stand, 

To h a ve no change ap pe a r : — 

jhea of My death, and of My worth, 



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You nothing make of Me; 
Only to change a worthless race, 
Still worse and worse to be. 
The Jews at first yon know were cast. 
When I did first appear, 
Their sacrifices then did cease; 
And all their prophets there 
Did fall with ME; blind mortals see, 
What change did then take place; 
But my Apostles then judg'd ME, 
That I should all embrace 
Another day, they then did say; 
And now the day is come * 

, That I shall change the scenes for all, 
My gospel now make known* 
It was from heaven My word was given* 
That there the bread must come; 
And that my flesh must be your food, 
Your ROCK to build upon* — 

And now I shall answer thee in plain words, as 
the verse may appear stumbling to the readers; 
for thy tears prevented ME from making it clear* 
And now I shall go back to Sacrifices and Burnt 
Offerings. It was the command of the Lord that 
was given to Moses for Burnt Offerings to be offer- 
ed up to the Lord ; but these Burnt Offerings and 
Sacrifices were but Types and Shadows, of MY 
being offered up for the Sins of Mankind, as the 
Paschal Lamb, to make atonement for man. In 
thy writings I have told thee, what the meaning 
of the Two Rams was, and what the Burnt Offer- 
ing of Sin, IS ; and why the Blood of Bulls and 
of Goats is mentioned in the Scriptures to make 
no atonement for sjn. Now these things that were 
mentioned in the Scriptures I have already told 
thee, and now I tell thee again, though they 
were commanded, they only stood as Types and' 



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Stndows O 7 ? TO*? LAST DAYS. But did thesfe 
Types a-i.d Sha l>ws list for ever? Look at the 
fevs, though they do not believe in ME,, nor in 
MY" G spei, yet, these Types and Shadows are 
done away by them. Kor as the Changes of the 
Season bhn^Sammer -m>1 rWiriter^ Seed time and 
H.irvest ; and one whole Cop is cut down which 
is ripe for the H \rvesi — aid NEW SEED is sown 
aga»n : so the t me came lor the cutting off the 
Jews, ani the N£ ; .V SEED was sown in the 
Gentiles, ani then instead of Sacrifices and Burnt 
Off rings, I COMMANDED THE BREAD 
AND WINE TO BE KEPT IN REMEM- 
BRANCE OF ME, till I came with THE 
WORD AND THE BREAD that cometh 
do-vn from Heaven: then know, it is MY" 
F ,ESH that must be your Food; and MY 
BLOOD that was shed, must he your Drink* 
And now I shall explain the meaning of the words, 
*'Ye have kep\ ihe Sacrament in remembrance of 
ME 1 ' — not as MY Fiesh as must change your vile 
Bodies, and fiftke them like My Glorious Body, 
that death mi>!u be swailow'ed up in Victory ; 
%nd MY WORD to be THE BREAD of Lite 
— that as in Ad mi all died ; e< en so in CHRIST 
shall all be made aii e. This i# THE BREAD 
of Heaven; ahd these are MY word^ left on re- 
cord, which, if a man BEL. EYE. he will find 
MY Flesh to be Flesh ind'oe 1— Son ituai Food; 
Spintu ai i\le*t.— And My ftloo 1 shall cleanse you 
fn>m all Sins. He that < emeth this, deuieth MY 
Bible, and do not k ep My Sacrament according 
to My Words, thte Bread of Life coming down 

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from Heaven, hut according to the Customs of 
Men — the Bread of Men — and not according to 
the Word of GOD/ 

adieu, fed, 

JANE TOWNLEY, 



From the same to the same 

Sunday Afternoon, July 0.2nd, 1804. 
Reverend Sir, . 

We received a Letter from Mr. 
Sharp, wherein he informs us the Clergy are 
preaching against Joanna and her Friends from 
the Pulpit, without reading her Books. Here Jo- 
anna was deeply answered ; the Truth of the 
Gospel was here made manifest — "Blind Leaders 
of the Blind, till all fall into the Ditch together." 
For they are judging of things they know nothing 
about ; and where are the Gentiles better than 
the Jews? For, thev are doing despite to the 
Spirit of God, saying, they want not the know- 
ledge of the MOST HIGH, and they are cru- 
cifying the Lord daily IN THE SPIRIT, as the 
Jews did IN THE BODY, and are bringing the 
day of Vengeance on themselves; and, was it not 
for the NEW COVENANT that the Lord said 
He would make with man, "that the Iniqui- 
*' ties of the Fathers should no more be laid upon 
44 the Children, but it was the soul that sinned 
" should die" and this NEW COVENENT, H* 



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hath established with us, that blessed be the Lord, 
their Iniquities cannot destroy us, as the fall of 
Adam fell upon all the race of Mankind,- but this 
NEW COVENANT Cuts off that Fall from 
all them that believe in Redemption, in and 
through the Merits of Christ ; so blessed be the 
Lord for His unbounded mercies, that from THE 
AUTHORITY of the Bible asweJlasTaE PRO- 
MISES made to me in my Writing, the Lord will 
not now lay the Iniquities of one upon the other, 
nor punifh the Innocent with the Guilty, the Juft 
with the unjuft ; — but deeply are the Words faid 
to me, the devil is now working STRONG in the 
Minifters to bring the day of Vengeance upon 
man, that he may escape the Curse pronounced 
upon him, and could he work thus in the hearts 
of all men, the world muft be burnt up like the 
Scroll, and all muft be burnt to alhes, and I muft 
say juftly deserve it; for if God so loved the 
World to give His Only Son to have His Heel 
Bruized, as promised in the Fail for the Trans- 
greflion of man ; and Chrift so loved the World 
to give up his Life for man, and man was ready 
to clamour for His Blood ; but now the time is 
come for satan's curse, to fulfil the promife that 
was made at the fame time in the beginning— 
they now want to make GOD a liar in the pro- 
mife HE made through HIS SON; for, if we read 
our Bibles through, the Bible is no more clear of 
CHRIST'S Death and Sufferings for man, than 
it is of HIS triumphing over Death, Hell, and 
Sin, and treading down all the Wicked as Alhes 
under HIS Feet, which was prophecied by the 
Prophet Malachi, as Well as from me Gofpel, ift. 
Epiftle of John, 5th chap, 1 xth ver. — ^fhis h the 



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Record that GOD Bath given to us, Eternal Life, and 
this Life is in HIS SON" I need not qiHte to you 
the many paffages of Scripture which affire us of 
eternal life in this World through C hkist Jesus, 
both of Redemption ;md Salvation, and thut HE/ 
will deftroy all the works of the devil, as well atf 
the promise made in the Revelations, that he is tor 
be chained down FOR A\ THOUSAND YEARS. 
I am sorry to say, I b, Hex e the Clergy know no 
more of their Bib-es, than they do of rfty writings 1 
—and was the Lord to come forward, as it is said 
to me, with $ "Sword in one hand, arid his B r b!et 
in the other, the Shepherds muft faT as the prass 
before HIM, for thev could not answer one word 
of a thousand :— only allow, they nave been 
Blind Leaders ot the Bffirid, and must confess 
they have acted as it is said in the 82nd Psalm, 
5th verse.— u%c lhat will not be learned, nor under*' 
"stand, but walk on still in darkness ; all the Foun- 
" d at ions of tht Earth are out oj course. I have said % 
* c ye are Gods : and ye are all the Children of the 
" MOST HIGHEST. ; But ye shall die like men; and; 
"Jail like one of the Princes J'— 



— . — M Now, Joanna, I shall answer^ 
Thou no further hast to go ; 
JAH, JEHOVAH, is thy Master, 
AH the shepherds I do know,— 
Like the psalm that thou hast mention^ 
T bey are wandering here from Me ; 
But they'll hold no Contention, 
Because the Light they will not see. 
The Psalm is true before their view. 
And true the words are come ; 
They neither know, p or will they lear$ 
What root to build upon--- 



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But boldly stray, as thou dost say, 

My bibie's all despis'd ; 

But my Jutt Judgments they shall see $ 

To make the "Fools more wise. 

Did I app< ar to perish here ? 

And hang upon the Tree, 

The clamouring I ongues of merit* 

hear ? 
And Satan swelled this way? 
To say, 'twas come now to his doom, 
But men will not submit, 
To Jet the Cross tor him to come, 
Kor nail his hands, nor feet-:— 
His head to bruize, they do refuse, 
Is satan's haughty pride ? 
I tell you fataler than the Jews, 
The Gentiles now must hide :— - 
The Rocks now call, to skreen you all, 
That will the serpent free ; 
The Axe is laid 1 fell you all, 
Then tremble every Tree, 
That now stand out so full of doubt^ 
And wish hirn to remain— 
JCo Love for ML there cannot be, 
Your sickly love is vain ; 
Your rage do swell infi'im'd by hell, 
And theie you all shall go, 
Unless like iXineveh you'll fall 
In sorrow, grief, ana woe. 
But I'll raise up an it s hope, 
For thern that trust in j E ; 
I never did on Calvary drop, 
To set the seiprnt free — 
As you vnin men do now contend f 
MY BIBLE throw aside; 
And satan in you to remain, 
Then sure in vain [ died.— 
If 't must go en, tl en by your Plarjj 
For men to muck MY Name; 
I ask you how the Jews do stand; 
lOr^ho do spread MY ifcame ? 



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Will you appear to answer here, 

You spread the Fame of ME, 

To make a Bible none can clear, 

But lies throughout to be? 

Bring ME the man that can contend, 

Fast bound in satan's chain, 

To prove MY Bible all is true ! 

No, all your arts are vain. — 

It can't be done, ye sons of men, 

By satan's arts or yours — 

MY Bible you do all deny. 

And think yourselves secure, 

To preach a word that came from God, 

Which you affirm is wrong, 

For if MY Bible all is false— 

Then lies upon your tongue 

You do appear, I tell you here, 

In to the Church to go ; 

And to MY Altar do repair 

With words you do not know— 

The Bread of Heeven, must sure be 

given, 
I tell you tis MY WORD, 
That must come down, the end be found, 
You ne'er discern 'd your Lord I 
From Types at first alj things did burst, 
And so that Type did come : 
But know the end was MY Intend, 
To make the truth be known ; 
Shadows from man, the Bread did come, 
Shadows of Bread below : 
But now 'tis drawing to the end, 
Your bread will never do. 
No, 'tis MY Word must be the Bread, 
To save you in the end ; 
And 'tis My Flesh must now break 

forth, 
The Spirit 's my intend 
M ust here appear, your Flesh must bear, 
To eat and drink with ME: 
I see the ponderings in thy heart, 



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Which way can this thing be? 
To eat MY Flesh, can man express, 
To eat the Flesh was MINE ? 
A mystery here thou cans't not clear, 
Thy potadering thoughts resign. — 
It is not so, I well do know, 
My Flesh is not their Food : 
But further let thy thoughts to go— • 
And let them eat MY Word ; 
That's to believe, I dont deceive, 
Then let MY Flesh appear ; 
And know that I shall come again, 
Their every guilt to clear — • 
That man with ME alike may be, 
Close joined to the VINE ; 
Then in MY Spirit you will drink, 
And know MY Blood's the Wine, 
That must appear in power here, 
The Water-pots to turn : 
And in the end they'll all see clear, 
With Wine I've made them strong, 
Because MY word, that's on record, 
Shall make their Foes submit ; 
And when in powtr I appear 
They'll tremble at their Feet. / j> 

So 1 11 end here, and say no more, J 

But let MY Sheep demand 
The way the Bible men can clear, 
If they DENY thy hand- 
No man on earth can now come forth, 
To prove these Writings thine ; — 
And as to hell, where darkness dwells, 
They surely must resign : 
Because from he it cannot be 
As I have said before ; 
A Judas men would make of he, 
To bring his gallows here : — 
Himself to hang, but 'tis for men, 
That he persuades them so; 
Because their GOD they may condemn, 
And all to hell may go. — . 



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But when that T, who dwell on High, 
PROVE, every word I've spoke; 
1 ask them where they then will fly, 
For to prevent the Stroke." — 

adieu, &c. See. 
JANE TOWNLEY. 




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